Hi Jan

 

[quote=jan_rifkinson]

user has to know to put cursor on item # column to copy correctly

and

in # column OR item column to paste correctly

You don't really have to put the cursor on item # to copy correctly. This is only in the case where you select only one item, to accelerate copying from one cell to another one without having to approve an option in the copy/paste dialog. (Try it, you'll see. And note that ctrl-Shift-C will always show the copy dialog.)

 

 

[quote=jan_rifkinson]

inter-grid, i.e. drag / drop item from under TLI-A > TLI-B works well (arrow graphic is clear, etc)

however

1) user has to know to put cursor on dot before item to drag item & it seems like a very small target

2) if user has to drag item past limit of pane, automatic scroll up / down is tricky to hit.  It feels like line is 1 or 2 px high which is too narrow to be user friendly

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1- not really...You can actually to click anywhere when you see the "editing mouse cursor" but you need to not be in edit mode. Drag and drop items is always possible  . This is just a convention to be learned I guess... How could it be made simpler ? I thought about it but haven't come with anything valuable [And pierre offered several cursor changes at some point but there were some flickering problems etc.]. Any ideas about how to make that simpler ?

 

2- I don't mind it, but maybe true. Any other opinions ? Right now it's more than 1-2 pixels though... at least 5 pixels. Too wide isn't better, so careful about that one.

Jan :  why tag me as the one who's only technically inclined, who doesn't care much about user friendlyness, is only interrested in esoteric bugs, and tries to convince everybody that IQ does it the right way and they should adapt, use workarounds,  etc.?  Sheesh. I guess that's what's in the deal for anybody who, like me, feel concerned by different aspects of reality (IQ's reality in that case), not just one.

 

[quote=jan_rifkinson from OLE linking and embedding ]
Armando (again this is NOT a criticism) made a long reply that we could do this or that, or we could have this option or that option & that's all ok as it may well add something special to IQ that I can't even imagine.
But for me, that's not the point. For me as everyman it's pretty simple:
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I won't take it "personally" (I am not offended) but what you say IS nevertheless a criticism (whether you're conscious of it or not) and I will choose to spend my time more wisely in the future -- like going outside and eat an icecream with my daughter... For practical purposes, mostly.

1- In the thread you referred too (this thread, I believe), I tried my best to propose a solution that could help you and everybody else. This is because I took the problem you described relatively "seriously" (not too seriously though, don't worry).

2- Some explanations may be too long for your taste -- sorry about that -- but, really, if you take the time to just re-read the proposed solution, you'll see that I'm not trying to convince you that IQ does it the right way and that you should just adapt or even complexity things. Actually,  quite the contrary.

 

E.g. : in that particular case, I'm proposing that Pierre implements a check box so that you an others -- myself included -- can see your copy/paste dialog all the time...

 

I'm surprised that I seem to want to complicate things and convince you that it's all ok... Anyway. Yes in this post I mistyped something, but that's just a human mistake.

 

 

[quote=jan_rifkinson from OLE linking and embedding ]
But for me, that's not the point. For me as everyman it's pretty simple:
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You say that for you it's all pretty simple... Maybe, effectively, saying that something doesn't work is a bit simpler then to propose a viable solution (IMO a tad harder). Not saying here that everybody should propose solutions. But it's true that pinpointing a problem is only the first step. Then others need to understand it fully and then propose some solutions.

Isn't it important to be able to discuss matters in the forum, sometime in details? What might seem clearly like a simple problem that should/could be fixed for one person isn't necessarily the case for the other who'll probably have other ways of doing things. Some intermediary solution must be found.

 

An IQ good viable solution, is... a good IQ viable solution.

Is a good viable IQ solution going to be the same as a good viable solution in, for example, Word Pad or even UltraRecall? IMO, it's probably going to be slightly more complex/nuanced as it does many  things for many different people (as we all know).

Hi group,

 

I appreciate that there is activity on the forum, this proves that the IQ community is active (and passionate). However, I'd like to concentrate on getting 0.9.25 out and then moving onto the Google / phone calendar sync (which many of us want really bad).

 

I think that you must accept that v0.9.25  will not be perfect and I'll re-examine these issues after v0.9.26

 

Pierre