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Submitted by jimspoon on 2011/07/20 00:57

I notice that IQ does not allow me to do something I can do in Ecco.

In Ecco, I can use alt-up and alt-down to move a subitem from one parent item to another. That is, if a subitem is the first subitem under one parent, I can use alt-up to make it the last subitem of the previous parent item. Conversely, if it is the bottom subitem, I can use alt-down to make it the first subitem of the next parent item.

In IQ, alt-up and alt-down can only be used to order subitems under the same parent. When the subitem is already the first subitem, alt-up has no effect. When it already is the last subitem, alt-down has no effect.

You might want to consider adding this Ecco behavior - it adds a bit more flexibility.

jim

Comments

Hi Jim,

I'm aware that Ecco allows this and in designing IQ, I thought it was best not to allow it. Perhaps others can chime in and comment on its usefulness

Pierre, I don't know what your reasons for not including this behavior in IQ.

Personally, I don't miss it & here's why:

When I use <ALT> up or down I know I can only work within the current TLI. It's something I don't need to think about, i.e. 'losing' an item to another parent in a big outline. At the same time I know I can always move or copy a sub-item to another parent quite easily & it's a conscious effort to do so.

My vote would be to leave it as it is.

I can see how the Ecco behaviour could be useful and, in a way, make IQ behave more like a word processor.

However, I tend to agree with Jan's logic : "loosing" an item to another parent by mistake can have time consuming effects... But/and it's easy enough to move an item anywhere consciously if that's the goal anyway (either by copy paste, or by using the mouse).

So I'd probably leave it the way it is. Or... offer an option to remove the "parent barrier"...

Hard to say. I'm used to the way it is now, but maybe would I like the Ecco way better if that's the one I was currently using.

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[quote=Armando]

I can see how the Ecco behaviour could be useful and, in a way, make IQ behave more like a word processor.

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First I thought, that sounds good; but I also agree with Jan

Would it be possible to implement using another qualifier key to make the jump to next parent

e.g. Alt+Ctrl+Arrowkey ?

[quote=Tom]