Here are some things I'd like to see in the Shift+F2 "floating" edit text box.

 

(1)  make it movable, i.e. truly floating.  (put a border around it that the mouse can grab on to?)

(2)  maybe make keystrokes work more like they would in a grid cell.

 

For example,

 

(1) in a grid cell Enter saves changes to the item and creates a new item.  In the Edit box, it inserts a carriage return.

(2) you can't tab down to the OK button in the edit box.  Tab inserts a tab in the text.

 

I realize these behaviors may have been by design.

 

As an alternative, Alt+O does work to save the changes, close the edit box, and return to the grid cell.  Shift+F2 does the same thing.  I can live with this if the current "Enter" behavior is preserved.

 

I'll say one thing I like very much about the Shift+F2 edit box.  The cursor position is preserved if I switch from Infoqube to another program and then switch back !!  This is exactly what I want and was a very happy discovery for me.  Whereas, if I am doing my editing in the grid cell, and switch away from Infoqube and then back, I have to reactivate the grid cell, and position the cursor where it was in the cell.  How about switching the grid cell behavior to match the floating box?  Or is this difference between grid cell and floating edit box also by design?

 

jim