Submitted by Anonymous on 2009/08/06 21:24
I would like to suggest that perhaps actually using rich text instead of html for note bodies could be advantageous. Perhaps you could make this an optional setting.

I sometimes insert Excel tables, or Visio or AutoCAD drawings into rich text documents. Using the native format makes it easy to edit the table / diagram and gives me full access to the program used to create the graphical / numerical parts of the document when I need to edit these.

It is easy to do the above in ancient programs such as Ecco and Keynote which allow me to do this. But to get the equivalent in InfoQube, I have to open the document in MS Word (and every time answer that annoying dialog about mht conversion), and then open the object in the program I used to create it. 

For myself there is little advantage to having note bodies in html, and there is the above-noted disadvantage. Perhaps there could be a global setting to use MS word as the editor for all note bodies, and have it live inside the note editing pane (i.e. inside the InfoQube window)....

Before I cause unintended offence, I would like to take the opportunity to thank PPL for originating the concept, and for following through with a useful implementation. I would not have bothered to criticize if IQ was not worth my time.

Best Regards,
AS



 

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>For myself there is little advantage to having note bodies in html, and there is the above-noted disadvantage. Perhaps there could be a global setting to use MS word as the editor for all note bodies, and have it live inside the note editing pane (i.e. inside the InfoQube window)....
 
There are plans to integrate mht format editing directly into the HTML pane (Word allow to save in MHT format). Using Word as the editor inside IQ doesn't seem to be possible -- well it didn't a while ago. Pierre might want to give more precisions.

I have attempted to "testdrive" SQLNotes/IQ a couple of times and was intimidated by my lack of understanding.  I am back for another try at it, but I am commited to success this time!
 
I would like to suggest that implementing a more intuitive and simple way of recording some notes/narratives by making easier access to the existing tools available in IQ. 
A simple FILE >> NEW >> NOTE (or similar) function that would allow the immediate entry of thoughts would be most advantageous in keeping potential users (like myself) attached to IQ's powerful utility until we make the conceptual paradigm shift.
 
I hope this makes sense?
 
Fair winds,
Calvin

Armando

2009/08/24 13:18

In reply to by CodeTRUCKER

Hi Calvin, I left an answer to your other similar post.
 
each item in a grid can be associated to some "rich text"/html.
 
view->html editor.
 
Your you can just take notes in the grid as you see fit -- bold, italic, etc. is available there too.
 
There's no need for a FILE >> NEW >> NOTE. Items are created just by pressing "enter", sub items "ctrl enter", etc. Have a look at the manual -- there are also some shortcuts explained there.
 

Yes, I am completely in support of this suggestion. Please, please! I don't like how the formatting features in the html pane have to be done with html features. i would much rather have the normal rtf/word features that are present in 99% of the other notetakers and MS Word. And I am aware of the ability to use Word, but I'm talking about directly editing in the pane. Instead of html codes, we should have: --a normal font drop-down box --a normal font size drop-down box --a normal color (font, background) button --I would also recommend adding a way to save certain user "styles" One thing I hate dealing with in html code is all the issues related to paragraphs, breaks, carriage returns, etc. I just want a normal line break when I hit enter, not a skipped line and stuff like that.

Pierre_Admin

2009/09/04 23:50

In reply to by Anonymous

Of course, an RTF editor could be implemented, but it would be quite a bit of work and in doing so one would loose one important feature:
  • If you select multiple items and do an HTML export, you get an HTML document that contains all the selected items and their HTML pane content. This is not possible with RTF.
I think that the solution is rather to improve the current editor, to be at least as good as the one used here, in the community web-site (which is FCKEditor)
 
[quote]
Superboyac wrote: (...) we should have:
--a normal font drop-down box
--a normal font size drop-down box
--a normal color (font, background) button
--I would also recommend adding a way to save certain user "styles"
One thing I hate dealing with in html code is all the issues related to paragraphs, breaks, carriage returns, etc. I just want a normal line break when I hit enter, not a skipped line and stuff like that.
[/quote]
  • There is a normal font drop-down box
  • The font-size could be expanded to support actual points, not just HTML sizes 1-7
  • There is a normal color (font, background) button (2 button for foreground, one for background)
  • Adding styles is a good idea
  • You can click on the "<DIV>" button to have "normal" paragraphs and the new html template uses a paragraph style without the extra space below

Tom

2009/09/06 07:19

In reply to by Pierre_Admin

[quote=Pierre_Admin]
[quote]
Superboyac wrote: (...) we should have:
--a normal font drop-down box
--a normal font size drop-down box
--a normal color (font, background) button
--I would also recommend adding a way to save certain user "styles"
One thing I hate dealing with in html code is all the issues related to paragraphs, breaks, carriage returns, etc. I just want a normal line break when I hit enter, not a skipped line and stuff like that.[/quote]
  • There is a normal font drop-down box
  • The font-size could be expanded to support actual points, not just HTML sizes 1-7
  • There is a normal color (font, background) button (2 button for foreground, one for background)
  • Adding styles is a good idea
  • You can click on the "<DIV>" button to have "normal" paragraphs and the new html template uses a paragraph style without the extra space below[/quote]I think it a good idea if you were to make the default HTML pand as similar as possible to superboyac's requests