88c Tabs with panes inside: sometimes not recognized as grids

Submitted by Armando on 2016/12/14 11:55
Not sure how to reproduce this, but if  in the main workspace I load only 2 tabs with panes inside, one of the two tabs will work properly (usually the first loaded one), but the other tab with panes inside won't be recognized by the rest of the interface. looses shortcut ability, context menus, etc.
 
Quick screenshots.
First tab with panes behaves normally. Focus is in grid and the main toolbar (File, Edit, ...) appears normally.
 

Second one doesn't. Focus is in in grid, but the main toolbar at the top (File, edit, View, Tools) appear as if the focus isn't in a grid, or if IQ had just loaded, with no grids.

"Load column set" suggestion

Submitted by Armando on 2016/12/13 13:19
 The "Load column set" feature conflicts with column grouping and so loading a column set usually results in a mess here.

It's hard to use & unfriendly/unintuitive when all columns are mixed, half grouped, etc.

The result is that I don't use the feature, but I'd really like to. 

Suggestion: could the loaded column set be exactly the same one as the one from the original grid they're loaded from?
I'd use it a lot more if that's what it was doing, instead of constantly adding and removing fields to the scratch/search and other grids.

I think it would make more sense and be more useful. (And -- why not -- there could be this extra option to merge column sets.)

Hoist Selected Items Toggle Command

Submitted by ethanrox on 2016/12/13 09:13
Personally, I think that the Hoisting process can be simplified if another command is added or the existing one "Hoist Selected Items" is expanded to check if there is hoist going on to turn it off when invoked.
 
It will bypass the need to go through the Hoist Dialog.
As it currently stands - I can assign shortcut to "Hoist Selected Items", but I need a different shortcut for the toggle of the Hoist Filter.

88c Focus problem with grids in a panes outside the main workspace & popups.

Submitted by Armando on 2016/12/13 01:22
- focus is on a grid in a pane *outside* the main workspace
- if a popup is triggered in IQ and then closed, the focus first comes back to the main workspace and  "slowly" switches back to the pane(s).  
(like I said, I'm talking about panes NOT in tabs, outside the main tab workspace) 
 
The result is that the focus sometimes doesn't fully come back to panes when I start typing -- it's pretty slow... 
And then I'll type/modify some item I don't see, in the main workspace.
 
The workaround is to wait longer, each and everytime. I've seem a few cases where the focus never came back to the panes or came back to some other pane. Not sure why. Maybe a mistake on my part -- will keep my eyes open...

88c : grids in panes (outside main workspace) sometimes appear completely white.

Submitted by Armando on 2016/12/13 01:16
Something is not always working with 88c and grids in panes (outside main workspace).
 
- When I click on a pane tab on autohide, the grid will often remain blank.
 
I have to refresh a couple times, click elsewhere, refresh again.
 
87 doesn't have this problem and also seems to load panes faster.
 
 
- When grids in panes are NOT in authide mode, the whole interface becomes black and gets distorted and finally the pane appears with its grid.
 
This sometimes has the effect of scrambling some pane tabs.

Focus always going to HTML Pane on new item

Submitted by DavidF on 2016/12/12 16:34
Each time I create a new item, the focus goes to the HTML Pane. Likewise moving to a new item.
 
Using 88c.
 
I had noticed in earlier versions of 88 that focus was sometimes going to HTML Pane when it shouldn't do - eg focus was on grid, I'd press down arrow, instead of going to next item it shifted focus to the HTML Pane.
 
Now it seems like it's doing it all the time.
 
DavidF.
 
-- I'd add that it seems a lot worse in some databases than in others. But at some point, navigating through items, focus will always jump to the Pane. It is also always particular items that do it. Other than the fact of having something in the HTML Pane, I can't see any common factor.

Document Pane Content Types and Associated Storage

The Document pane can display a wide variety of content:
  1. Rich text
  2. HTML file
  3. Markdown file
  4. Other local files (such as PDF, images, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, etc)
  5. Web page
  6. MHT / EML file
  7. Ink document
  8. SVG document
  9. Folder view (Explorer-like)

Of these, only the first is embedded in the IQ base:

Making changes to fields in manage fields dialog takes a huge amount of time.

Submitted by Armando on 2016/12/12 02:42
87 was OK, 88 is slower than ever. More than 5min for any changes I make.
There's no specific steps apart from modifying some field (equation, maybe), saving. Then I need to wait, and wait... And the CPU is maxes out.
(In general, IQ is more CPU intensive than it used to be -- at least with my bigger than average DB)