Submitted by LeftEccoForIQ on 2019/01/03 17:38
I've been thinking that I disklike the "highlight selected cell" option, regardless of whether I have a "semi-transparent selector" enabled or not. When I do, the contrast between text and background of the selected cell is rather poor. When I don't, the item text colour is no longer displayed. I use text colours heavily to reflect item priority and contexts (as in GTD) so that doesn't really cut it either. The thing is, when I disable "highlight selected cell" to enter a more simple, Ecco-style mode of highlighting, it becomes quite hard to discern the selected cell, which leads me to suggest that a thicker frame around it (currently it's only a very thin dotted line) would be useful. An option to vary this thickness and a choice of colour for the frame would be great, too!
 
Also, when highlighting is disabled, a glitch becomes apparent in that when selecting an item, the highlight colour flashed up briefly, then disappears again. (Or is that intentional?)
 
Edit1: Just discovered another bug (?) in the non-highlighted mode: I can't copy the text of the currently selected item to the clipboard without entering edit mode.
 
Edit2: Another problem in that mode: can't erase an item unless I select multiple items (using shift-cursor or mouse drag).
 
Thanks for considering!

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Hi !
 
The two reported bug are now fixed.
 
If it help at all, there are now 2 separate options to highlight row and column headers
 
Regarding viewing cell color, why not move the focus to another column ? It could be a narrow column just left of the Item column...
 
Finally, IMO, it is not a good information management technique to edit the item content, based on priority et al.
Content should be separate from presentation of the content. So you should not embed formatting to reflect item priority and contexts
Instead, use another column or icons, etc
 
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

LeftEccoForIQ

2019/01/04 08:40

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Thanks for the new option, viz. highlight row header. It should do the trick for me!
 
However, it only works as I would imagine it to when I enter edit mode (only the area left of the item text get the highlighting background colour). In selection mode, IQ behaves as before when highlighting was disabled, i.e. only the thin dotted rectangle distinguishes the selected item. The rather irritating flashing of the entire item's background being set to the highlighting colour and then back to the regular background a second later also still occurs in version k whenever I click to select a different item.
 
Cheers!