Manual sort order gets lost

Submitted by lucasd on 2010/12/05 21:57
 I have encountered a simple situation in which manual sort order gets lost. Steps to repeat (I'm using 0.9.25H 12/3/2010 installed version):
  • In Options | Grids, check the box for "While editing, Enter creates a new item.
  • Create new grid.
  • In the first item space, write "Two".
  • Press enter.
  • In the second item space, write "Three".
  • Now, select the first item ("Two"), and press alt+enter. This should create a new item above "Two". 
  • In the new (top) item space, write "One." The three items should now appear in order from top to bottom: One, Two, Three.
  • Save and close the grid. 
  • Reopen the grid.

Suggestion: Grid-specific background colors (M)

Submitted by lucasd on 2010/12/05 19:13
AFAICT, grid "back colors" are a universal setting (or at least a database-wide setting), but it would be handy to select different background color schemes for different grids within the same database. (For instance, I might want a free-writing grid without the visual distraction of alternating colors, even though I find alternating colors very useful in other grids.) Thoughts?
 
(Hope I'm not being greedy with all the feature suggestions... I just figure I might as well share ideas while I think of them.)

Enter doesn't create new item if "Item" column isn't tree column (M)

Submitted by lucasd on 2010/12/05 18:46
Using 0.9.25H build 12/3/2010 (installed):
 
I have 'enter' set to create a new item in my grids, and this normally works as expected. However, if I make a column other than "Item" into the tree column, then 'enter' no longer creates a new item in the "Item" column. (In other words, with cursor anywhere in the "Item" column, 'enter' does not create a new item.)  However, using the menu to insert a new item still works as expected. As far as I can tell, this is a bug... can others verify?
 
Thanks,
Lucas

Manual sort order --- available metadata?

Submitted by lucasd on 2010/12/05 18:33
 I had a glance at the interesting discussion thread about sorting here, but I am still left wondering how manual sort order is stored as metadata. Is it something that could somehow be included in properties, and hence as a column in other views? As far as I can tell, it is currently stored as metadata but not visible to the user, except in its visible result (e.g., the sort order). Am I making any sense?

Working within HTML Pane

Submitted by jan_rifkinson on 2010/12/04 13:21
I created an item in a specialized grid that I use to write & used the HTML pane to write an article
I switched off to another grid to take notes on a telephone call & returned to continue my writing efforts
I closed the writing grid & re-opened it and all was well but the icon I use to illustrate that HTML data exists wasn't displayed
I considered the possibility that it was one of those odd refresh issues & closed the file, closed the program, reloaded everything in reverse order
Oooops. The HTML data was gone.

Full screen mode (options to hide title bar, status bar, toolbars) (M)

Submitted by lucasd on 2010/12/02 19:50
Since I use a netbook, the presence of the title bar in windows is often an inconvenience, as it takes up valuable space. It would be great to have a full screen mode in InfoQube. There could be options for which items would disappear in full screen mode (title bar, status bar, toolbars, etc).
 
I didn't see this mentioned yet (please let me know if I missed something), so I thought I'd post it here as a suggestion. Thoughts?

Thousands of auto-generated blank items (M)

Submitted by lucasd on 2010/12/02 00:44
My IQ database has started to report a number of errors which I'm not sure how to interpret. This evening, it also auto-generated nearly four thousand blank items.
 
My database is still usable, and I can probably figure out how to iron out the kinks, but would it be helpful to post the error log?
 
(EDIT: I forgot to mention that I'm using 0.9.25H, but the problems began before switching to the new version.)
 
UPDATE: Now things are getting weirder. I tried to delete the nearly four thousand items. 85 of them persisted, and I tried to delete them multiple times. Finally I got rid of them, but then I discovered in another grid that there were exactly 85 blank items that I hadn't created. Whereas the four thousand blank items all had item ID's, these 85 blank items have no item ID's!

Auto-completion for 'cloning' and linking (M)

Submitted by lucasd on 2010/12/01 21:38
Armando has already discusses auto-complete for dropdown lists. Here's are two auto-completion features I would love to see:
  1. Auto-completion for 'cloning'. When entering text in a new item, I would like to be able to press ctrl-enter (or something like that) to bring up a list of all already existing items matching the string. Pressing enter on any item would create a 'clone' of that item (such that it would assign the item as a child of whatever item is parent to the place I am entering text).
    • Issues/questions
      • I'm imagining this as an efficient way of making an already-existing item into a child of another item. But I'm not sure what would happen when entering text at top-level.
      • What would happen when there are multiple items with the exact same text?
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