Editing book pages

Submitted by gregory on 2015/03/02 09:43
I am trying very hard to improve the manual pages concerning project planning and the Gantt view. I also decided to be "good", and not to follow my normal instinct, which is to rip the text out of the InfoQube forum, edit it in Microsoft Word – which is a good and powerful editor – and then try and put it back into InfoQube. Every time I do that, I get accused of creating bad HTML for reasons which I don't understand and which the forum editor paste from Microsoft Word button ought to handle.

So I am trying to use the editor on the forum website (built long ago using an ancient version of Drupal now out of support) and I find it an incredibly frustrating experience. For example, I cannot find the equivalent of a ribbon and therefore I cannot adjust the margins of the text which I'm creating. Every time I want to paste an image or a URL, I have to remember specific tricks. There is no format painter, which makes most of my tasks much longer.

Version 0.9.26Pre-Rel42 is now available !

Submitted by Pierre_Admin on 2015/02/17 14:37
Hi IQ Users,
 
In this release (v0.9.26PreRel42):
  • New: Omnibox can be placed on the main menu if desired. 
  • New: Pop-up list now supports Filter-on-type. Either click on the header of hit Ctrl+F to activate it (See Auto-complete on SQL-derived field)
  • Fixed: Major cleanup / update of the Customize dialog content. Lots of commands were missing or in the wrong place
  • Fixed: Pressing the Omnibox keyboard shortcut could lock IQ
  • Fixed: Omnibox command list text did not always perfectly match the menu items
  • Fixed: Cannot make changes to the Omnibox in the Customize dialog (see Some UI inconsistencies in 41)
  • Change: Omnibox default keyboard shortcut has changed to Ctrl+F as it does search too. The original shortcut was also incompatible with AZERTY keyboards.

Writing in InfoQube (rich text): is this a priority?

Submitted by gregory on 2015/02/17 00:01
To anyone who wonders why I persist with the use of Microsoft Word as an editor and word processor: there are many reasons. For example, as of now, there is no better way of composing and managing text which includes outlines – a feature which most InfoQube users love. LibreOffice Write does not implement outlining.
 
Ideally, I would compose more of my text in InfoQube itself.

Keep losing Layout

Submitted by plp on 2015/02/16 21:36
When InfoQube is started or re-started or opening grids it shows number of items, on the tab, but no items are shown. If an item has information in the html pane I can see the html information but not the item it belongs too or which item it is. I have to load the default.dock.dat layout, first, in order to show all the items and then load my saved dock, which places the html pane at the bottom. I have to do this for every grid I open even sometimes when I close some grids and then re-open later during the same session. This has been happening for a while. I am using Version 0.9.26Pre-Rel41 build 2/13/15 Beta Running in Portable mode on Windows 8.1. I have searched for information on options to see if there is a setting that controls using the layout but I cannot find any. I am attaching an image of an open grid with number of items on the tab but no items listed.

Some UI inconsistencies in 41

Submitted by Jon on 2015/02/16 12:16
Hi Pierre:
 
Menu | Grid has an icon displayed whereas other menu items do not. This is easy for the user to show default or text only, but I thought I would mention it. Also, "Grid" is in bold which is different from the display of other menu items.
 
Under Customize | Toolbars. Search Box cannot be unchecked while all the others can be turned off. Finally, right clicking lists all the other toolbars EXCEPT for Search Box.
 
Jon

PDFs in HTML Pane

Submitted by WayneK on 2015/02/15 20:10
Hello all.  I've been out of the loop for a while.  My motherboard went bad and I had to re-install all my software.  I'm trying to get back to where I was a few weeks ago.
 
I installed pre-release 41, portable.  I noticed that it no longer seems possible to display PDF's in the HTML pane.  I tried dragging PDF's there and also to the grid but neither did anything.  I know it was working before because I had a discussion with Pierre about the merits of using PDF's inside InfoQube.
 
Am I just doing something wrong or is this something missing in the 41 release?
 
Thanks, Wayne

Auto-complete on SQL-derived field

Submitted by gregory on 2015/02/15 07:16
An earlier forum post, www.sqlnotes.net/drupal5/index.php, "Auto-complete wherever/whenever there's a drop-down menu", suggested that auto-completion should be as near universal as practicable.

In several instances, I have a drop-down list which is derived from SQL (which means that the contents of the list are dynamic and change as values elsewhere in the IQbase change). In the instance illustrated, the drop-down list is very long and it takes far too long to select an item from it. I am continuing to investigate ways of restricting the length of that list. But my task would be considerably easier if I could "home-in" on the field value by typing the first few characters.
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