Em dash keystroke producing different characters in Item and in HTML pane

Submitted by ThomR on 2018/10/13 09:18
 Greetings,
 
I use em dashes (—) all the time, so I've mapped the em dash to 'ctrl + hyphen' on my laptop keyboard. In Infoqube, this works fine in the HTML pane, but in the Item pane itself, the character is displaying as a vertical bar: "  ǀ  ". If I copy this bar and paste it into the HTML pane or elsewhere, it displays correctly (appears as a horizontal em dash). 
 
I went to check on my desktop, which has a numeric keypad, and the alt-code entry (Alt + 0151) produces the same effect.
 
Any way to produce this character properly? Thanks!

Gantt Charts and Accounting...

Submitted by Pierre_Admin on 2018/10/12 17:01
Hi IQ Users !
 
Having a working v110 release, I was faced with some long overdue accounting...
 
The reason it tends to fall through the cracks, is of course that it is tedious... entering bills, dates, etc
 
And, important is ensuring that monthly statements are all there. Here is a neat trick to visually see that, in seconds, not minutes. Show the Gantt !!:
 
 
A nice straight line !
 
Pierre_Admin
 

Release Notes prior to v0.9.70

0.9.26PreRel69 (2016-02-03)
  • New: Grid: When creating an .odc, warn user if the grid is not visible to other applications, and offer to make it visible
  • New: Grid: Improved Hoist (item expand states matches pre-hoist display)
  • Fixed: Grid: Refresh did not apply Ctrl+G type filtering
  • Fixed: Grid: Split an item could create 2 new identical items instead of one
  • Fixed: Grid: Grid could lock up under certain conditions
  • Fixed: Universal clipper had (again) an issue with importing latin character content
 
0.9.26PreRel68 (2016-02-02)
  • New: Better Unicode support
  • New: Universal clipper correctly handles non-latin characters (arabic, russian, greek, asian)

after file open, no Grids opened, no View menu, only File and Tools menu shown

Submitted by jimspoon on 2018/10/10 09:15
I opened the (edited) sample database but even after the file is loaded, no Grid is open.  I would use the View > Grids menu to open a grid, but the View menu was not shown.  Only File and Tools menu were shown.  It's ok, I can work around that by going to Tools > Manage Grids and open a grid from there.  Once I do so, then the usual menus File Edit View Grid Column Item Tools appear.  Still, it seems like a bug that the file is open but there is no View menu to open a grid from, until I open a grid through Manage Grids.
 
Using 110Pre3, but I saw this problem before updating to 110Pre3, not sure when I first saw it.

SHORTCUT Key to FOCUS the 1st Column/Field in a Grid and/or Form to enhance Data Entry.

Submitted by DragonGem on 2018/10/09 18:15

 After working thru the peculiarities of creating new Items and populating data Fields directly in the Grid and via Forms, I'm finding data entry in IQ to be refreshingly "keyboard friendly" EXCEPT for returning to the 1st Field to begin entering a new Item. 

I notice that both <Home> and <Ctrl+Home> have identical effects in Grids (move to 1st row) and the Properties Pane (focus Item Properties divider); one of these Shortcuts could be enlisted to shift the Focus to the 1st Field instead. Additionally, creating a NEW Item / Sub-Item via <Ctrl+F7> / <Ctrl+F8> (or <Enter> / <Ctrl+Enter> in the Grid) should automatically shift the Focus to the 1st Field as well (this goes for the Item Command Toolbar buttons as well).

Alternatively / Additionally, <RightArrow> when in the last Column of a Grid (or <DownArrow> in last Field in a Form) should cycle the Focus around to the 1 Field. 

Header of FOCUSED Field loses its specified Color setting.

Submitted by DragonGem on 2018/10/09 11:36

Hate to keep doing this you, Pierre...

I love the capability to have the Headers of particular Fields be set to a specified color and this feature appears to work flawlessly EXCEPT when that Field becomes FOCUSED in the Grid. IQ appears to re-draw the Column Header (in anticipation of emphasizing the currently active column?) to the Default Header Color. This isn't that big of a deal when you set the Grid Cells to be colored as well, but I find that be overkill in most circumstances.

FUTURE ENHANCEMENT: The ability to LOCK a Document Pane to a GRID

Submitted by DragonGem on 2018/10/09 11:04

 Just something that I will let percolate in your mind (I haven't thought thru the potential ramifications yet myself).

Currently, if I have multiple Document Panes open with none of them LOCKED to a particular Item, IQ will cycle thru each to display subsequent Documents. To get the effect of having all Documents show up in a particular Pane, I have to LOCK each of the other Document Panes to a specific Item. Workable with 2 Documents Panes but cumbersome with more than that.

A short-term compromise would be the ability to designate a single Document Pane as the DEFAULT VIEWER for a period of time. This would just require an additional button on the Standard Toolbar and simply short-circuit the cycling process. 

Document Pane not showing Images when Browse Mode is turned on

Submitted by DragonGem on 2018/10/09 08:13

 Drag & Drop some image files into a Grid and specify to show in the Document Pane. When I turn on Browse Mode for the Document Pane and select a different Item, the image doesn't show; turning Browse Mode off fixes immediately.

NOTE: I did edit the HTML for each Image to set "height=350" so they would scale to my default Document Pane size; it would be great if we could specify some additional HTML directives to add into the HTML wrapper when creating File Links.

Adjusting Tag Grid TEXT SIZE can cause Tag List to list [Item Font] instead of [Item]

Submitted by DragonGem on 2018/10/07 16:35

I'm loving the new TAGS feature and I've been putting it through its paces by playing around with Colors, Fonts and using Non-Alpha characters for Sorting Purposes. I've run across a strange situation where the List of Tags will display the value in [Item Font] instead of the Text value in [Item]. This seems to occur immediately after adjusting the TEXT SIZE and can be cleared up by making an Edit to the Item Text. My use of Non-Alpha characters as Prefixes to adjust Sort Order of Tags when not in Tree View may be a contributing factor but I doubt that.

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