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Submitted by J-Mac on 2009/04/15 01:53

Pierre,

On the Grid Toolbar - hopefully I am describing that correctly - the grid names are shown with the text sideways with the bottom of the text toward the left and the top toward the right. This is in contrast to the only other programs that I use with a similar vertical toolbar: Microsoft OneNote 2007. OneNote 2007 has a very similar toolbar that shows the Notebook names in tabs down the left side of the UI, but with the text facing the opposite way. All other applications that I use that use a sidebar to the left side have wider sidebars that show the items in regular horizontal text.

At first I found the tabs in OneNote 2007 to be somewhat annoying because I was not accustomed to reading menu text sideways like that. However over time I have gotten used to it - well, at least as used to it as I am going to get, I guess. Since I have used OneNote a couple years longer than I have SQLNotes, whenever I open SQLNotes the grid toolbar text looks foreign to me! It must be a trick the brain plays on the eyes but once you finally get accustomed to looking at sideways text to the point where it seems almost normal, viewing sideways text that is flipped 180 degrees from what youa re used to is like, well, reading standard text upside down!

Is there any chance that the grid toolbar could eventually be made user-configurable so that clicking and dragging the side of it would widen the toolbar and have the text turn horizontal when it is wide enough to accommodate it? I am not suggesting that the text be reversed to face the opposite way sideways, as that would no doubt be vexing to users who have become accustomed to it the way it is now.

Anyway, this is certainly not a major issue for me. Just something that I would like to see if possible down the line when SQLNotes is relatively "caught up" with already planned productivity-related features.

Thanks!

Jim

PS - I tried several times to insert example images of the text in both SQLNotes and OneNote, but they don't seem to get inserted. ???

Comments

Interesting Jim -

possibly the IQ version was based on the way the text reads on a book-spine - interesting that here in Germany they run the text up as opposed to down in the english speaking world. This naturally influences how they layout & design stuff (maybe OneNote was "Made in Germany"?!)

I thought there was a setting in Options related to this but cant find anything

I just have the icon showing - when I click on the grids Icon (or press Ctrl+Shift+O) the grids show as a list (horizontal) and then typing first letter will move focus amongst grids starting with that letter

Grid 1

Grid 2

Grid 3

Grid 4

etc

Armando is the expert on this or maybe someone else knows how to change the settings (if possible)

I'm not sure I follow you. In my setup, to read the grid toolbar, I must turn my head CW (clockwise). This is the same as all Office apps:

The toolbar toolkit is not able to resize when docked, however, if you undock it, it will now show horizontal:

Armando will say that he doesn't use the grid toolbar, but the grid dropdown menu, this is also a good UI solution

> Armando will say that he doesn't use the grid toolbar, but the grid dropdown menu, this is also a good UI solution

Exactly... :) Much quicker : ctrl-shift-O, then type first letters and press enter. Or just mouse left-click.