Hi Pierre, I hope you're doing well.

 

It's already been a while since the last update and there are a few annoying (and pretty major) issues waiting to be fixed. A few minor things have been cleared it appears, but I'm waiting for these other ones.... those that have an impact on my data and are complete time wasters.

 

Speaking of time wasters, I just posted something concerning conditional formatting as this remains a bit of a mystery to me : why does it work, why it doesn't , etc. I still have no clue. Too many invisible mechanisms into which I don't have any insight.  And then there are the dangerous inheritance problems and column equation problems, plus other pretty significant problems already in Mantis (and mentioned in the "What is Pierre working on these days ?

Hello,

Sometimes conditional formats work, sometimes they don't.

 

I checked that all the necessary columns are there in the right grids, etc. and they are, etc.

I'm not an IQ newbie and so I think I should be able to have conditional formatting work properly by now.

 

 

I have a few questions :

 

1- Formatting seem to proceed as "IF" (e.g. : if notes<>0 then BackColor=&h6EECFF, if task<>0 then BackColor=&h00DDFF, etc.).

I just wanted to check if the forums were still working since there doesn't seem to have been any posts for 4 days now, and it's usually quite an active place.

 

Of course we can hope it is because there simply are no more issues with IQ .

 

[Discuss] 12.10 Navigating in IQ using keyboard shortcuts

 

Armando,

I quote you from -- link to nonexistent node ID 1724 -- :

 

I dont understand the bit 'alt+"right-click" will do it' -

Right-click being mouse but Alt+ ?

I noticed a few weeks ago that after a certain number of filters I insert in the filter text box, the history list stops to record new ones.

Is that on purpose or is it a bug?

 

In any case, may I suggest  that :

 

1- it keeps rolling and deletes the oldest ones "instead of the newest" ?

2- And maybe could it keep the last 100 entries  instead of 50 (when one changes filters a lot, it moves rapidly).

 

Thanks.

 

(P.S. : also, Pierre, you said a while ago that you'd add the possibility of "commenting" the filters inside the text box... That would certainly be useful to describe long filters or for other purposes -- it was in mantis (269) but got deleted at some point. Would it be useful to put it back or do you have other plans ?)

I use it a lot, but only because I need a quick way to see both HTML and properties pane and then hide them, without loosing the focus in the grid.

For some reason, it's the only keyboard shortcut that will insure me that when panes are hidden the focus won't go somewhere strange.

 

But, when properties pane and HTML pane are both opened, one below the other (sticky mode) F11's actions are hard to remember and grasp.

 

1- why does F11 detach the HTML pane and not the properties pane when it has focus (not that it bothers me that much, but I wonder why as it makes its mechanism hard to grasp) ?

 

2- why none of the panes have focus when they appear using F11 ?

 

3- Then...

I just noticed that the ability to set the default margin settings is no longer available in Rel 25. The default is always 1 inch.

 

Al

 

(1) seems to be a bug - havent time now to check in clean file:

 

Tag an Item that starts with a link i.e. <a href= etc. etc.

In the properties pane under tagged items, it will only show as:

and nothing else of the text of the item. (The '<a' is actually the link.)

 

 

(2) I am pretty much unable to untag items, as this option is not available via the item context menu (maybe a good idea to add ?) 

 

Context menu for Tagging was discussed elsewhere lately:

 

I was writing up -- link to nonexistent node ID 1724 -- and came across some (minor) focusing problems when using F11 to 'float' the html pane:

 

I quote and highlight the problem points

I thought I'd gather together a summary of current situation with WikiTags: problems & possible solutions.