As a developer I can't stand not having unit tests. With IQ this actually becomes more important since think often silently fail and I personally can't get the debugger working. So I have been using a simple test approach with asserts to test my functions.

 

The idea is pretty simple. Whenever I write a function (e.g. MyFunc) I also write a test for it (e.g. MyFunc_Test). You can then run test function using the "Execute A Function" button.

 

I have the test function call my asserts. Here is the assert code I am using. If you are using a debugger that will give you a stacktrace you can uncomment the Err.Raise to go right to the problem. I often copy all my VBScript to a Excel VB Module to test it there for that reason.

 

 

I just figured out that its possible to log from VBScript functions. This can be super helpful for debugging and figuring out why things are not working, especially until I finally figure out how to use a script debugger (see How to do VBScript function debugging).

 

The function at http://www.naterice.com/articles/43 (written by someone else) works fine for me. The one thing I changed was I set the log directory explicitly by changing these two lines:

 

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Hi Armando,

 

You've mentioned a few times you use AutoHotKey with InfoQube. Could you give some basic info on how you are using it?

 

The few times I have tried to use it with IQ I have run into weird pasting problems. That said I would love to use it to create keyboard shortcuts for a few things like the following if folks have ideas on how to do it. Here are my thoughts so far.

 

I think is probably the easiest one since the textbox has a specific ClassNN (Edit2).

 

 

These seem trickier since the grid control is opaque.

I've written a Natara Bonsai export template to InfoQube. It's at https://gist.github.com/2775504.

 

Not sure if anyone else is using Bonsai, but its really the best outline for filtering outside of InfoQube/EccoPro I have found on Windows. And it actually does true full outline filtering unlike InfoQube (see "Context Parents" only shows the first parent.). Its biggest weakness is it doesn't do custom fields/columns which is why I have been wanting to try IQ instead. It also doesn't do recurrence, but I have a XSL script/hack I wrote for that. You can get more info at http://www.natara.com/Bonsai/index.cfm. That said, I am hoping to make the switch to InfoQube, warts and all.

 

The export template generates an XML file that can be pasted into InfoQube.

 

I've added a PDF to the wrong item's HTML pane, so I want to remove it. I cant figure out how - - help?

 

I know I've had this problem before but never figured it out I dont think (or else I've forgotten).

It doesnt seem to be intuitive at any rate (or else I'm having one of those days...)

 

 

I would like to have a date field be red if its past today's date, but I'm not sure how to do it in a conditional formatting expression. I've looked at the IQ doc (node:219) and the control's doc (http://www.exontrol.com/content/products/exg2antt/help/ConditionalForma…) but can't find the solution.

 

I've tried variations like the following without success:

 

DueDate > Today()

int(DueDate) > int(Today())

Anyone have an idea? Keep in mind this is for conditional format expressions, not equations or the source bar (each of which have their own different rules :).

 

Thanks,

d

 

 

FYI, I put some InfoQube info on Wikipedia and Quora. Here are the links, for both I tried to keep it succinct and accurate. If you think I missed something key on Quora please do let me know. If you think I missed something key on Wikipedia then go ahead an update it :).

 

Hi Pierre,

 

As I think I have mentioned elsewhere I think the "Export Field Equations" functionality is very useful. It would be even nicer if users could export all the field properties also. That would make it easy to quickly share solutions and also to share setups when folks are helping to troubleshoot things.

 

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