Using the Popup Editor

The Popup Editor is a WYSIWYG editor to edit items and other text fields.
It is generally accessible from the main menu and context menus. The default keyboard shortcut is Shift + F2
 
 
It can be used from the following UI elements:
  • Grids (text cells and header caption)
  • Calendar
  • Surface
  • MapView
  • Properties Pane
     

1.0 Formatting

To format text, you can use:
  • Formatting toolbar
  • With text selected or not, right-click to show the context menu. Supports all formatting options:

Pasting images in the grid

Submitted by WayneK on 2016/01/22 20:05
I want to create a dictionary of symbols.  Each symbol is to be shown in its own cell, with the name displayed in the adjacent item column. Additional info would be in the HTML pane or in subitems.  It appears you can only paste images in the item column.  I've tried every other column type but none will accept images.
 
I thought for sure I'd tested this before and you could freely copy/paste images in any column.  Am I mis-remembering or is something not working?  Is there another way to accomplish what I want?
 
Thanks, Wayne

delay when pressing Enter to create new item in grid

Submitted by jimspoon on 2016/01/22 16:48
I am curious about Infoqube's behavior when I press Enter to create a New Item in a grid.
 
Say I am editing an Item that is not the bottom item in the grid, i.e. there are more items below the current item.  If I press Enter to finish editing the item, create a new item immediately under the current item, and move to that new item - there is a considerabe delay.
 
I have found that creating new items is a lot more zippy if I go to the bottom of the grid and press Enter a number of items to create several new items.  Then, as I continue entering more items in the grid, I just press the Down Arrow key to move from item to new item and enter my text.   I'm wondering why this might be so.
 
Also ...

Live Links to IQ Grids from Word and Excel

Through ODBC, many application can view IQ data.
 
With Office applications, such as Microsoft Word and Excel, ODBC can of course be used, but an even easier method uses ODC connections. Either way, you then have live connections to IQ data and you can:
  • Perform mail-merge, and email-merge
  • Share IQ grid content with other users that don't have InfoQube, simply by send them an Excel file.

Version 0.9.26Pre-Rel67 is now available !

Submitted by Pierre_Admin on 2016/01/21 17:33
Hi IQ Users,
  
While users keep testing, a few more fixes are now available. In this release (v0.9.26PreRel67) :
  • Fixed: Improved support for Unicode characters, including asian
    • Grid font must either be blank or set to an Unicode font, such as @Arial Unicode MS (Manage Grid > Options > Default Font)
    • The default grid font must also be set to a Unicode fond, since it is used by such things as the docking p

create new item with down arrow key at bottom of grid

Submitted by jimspoon on 2016/01/20 13:55
Thanks so much for making it possible to scroll the grids past the bottom item.
 
A minor suggestion.  On the bottom item in the grid, the down arrow currently has no effect.  To start a new item below the bottom item, I have to press Enter.  How about making it so that when the Down arrow is pressed on the bottom item in the grid, a new item is created below the bottom item?

scramble database text for upload for debugging?

Submitted by jimspoon on 2016/01/19 21:42
I'd like to have a way to scramble text in my database so I can then upload my database to Pierre for debugging, without exposing my content in any way.
 
In particular, I still have the problem with "incomplete item splitting".  That is, if I use Ctrl+Shift+S to split an item, the text after the cursor will be put into a new item, but it is not removed from the original item that I wanted to split.
 
If I could scramble the text, presumably the the condition causing the "incomplete split" problem would be preserved and be debugged.
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