Submitted by woodworker on 2010/07/29 20:50
Hi Pierre,
 
It's been a long time since I sent in comments. I think I saw someplace (in your infocube roadmap, maybe) that you were planning to make it so a person could display more than one grid at a time - like in Ecco Pro. How's that coming? I looked through the menus and couldn't find a way to do it. Am I missing it?
 
Best Regards,
Will Highfield

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Hello woodworker. Welcome back.
 
This has been possible for at least 2 years... If not since the beginning. Can't remember.
 
Right click on grid tab --> New vertical/horizontal tab group.
Or you can left click on grid tab and drag the tab to the grid area. A dialog will offer you theses choices.
 
HTH

There's some info in the online manual at Working with Grids and Tabs. I don't think there is a menu equivalent available.
 
By the way, we now have a .chm version of the online manual available to download: 
 
Go to  "Home" and look for " or in the familiar help file format here" and click the "here"
to download it from a dropbox location.
 

I'm thinking that maybe that feature should be available under an extra "Windows" menu, like in MS Word : windows->[various windows options]
 
Or it  could be : View -> windows->[various windows options]
 
But the View menu my get too crowded.
 

I think what Will is referring to is ComboViews. In a comboview, a single workspace tab can contain any number of views (grid, calendar, etc) which can be easily rearranged. It will be implemented as panels inside a workspace tab.
 
 
Still planned, but no ETA
 

jan_rifkinson

2010/07/30 07:56

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Not taking a shot here but considering that this request is 2+ yrs old, maybe it's time to start looking at elements that are geared more towards gen'l user convenience like this, calendar, saving tab/grid positions, spell chk/word count & other such things & less time on some of the more esoteric elements that have been more in focus recently.
 
Of course I understand bugs always have priority but I'm thinking more about marketing, etc. something Pierre admits may not be his strong suit. EccoPro has a good fan base. If they can be satisfied that IQ can do what it does & MUCH MORE (which is already the case), it might make it easier to attract them to IQ en mass.
 
Then there's the writer group who research / write. It might be worthwhile to develop a broad list of users by category & see what might be missing to tempt / attract those people to IQ now in beta so they can easily be converted to licensees & word of mouth, viral advertisers on groups like the outline forum, etc. I mean, really, @ some point IQ has to leave the realm of hobby / love child & have some kind of business model even if it's zoot-like which seems to be working for Tom Davis.
 
Comments, any_everyone.

Tom

2010/07/30 08:23

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Jan
I think it would be fairer all round to start a new thread with that post - it's an interesting topic and deserves a thread title all of it's own I think :-)