Does anyone (Pierre) know if Pierre is still off making a good living for himself & his real family, on vaca, biking or quietly finishing up 9.25 while we leave him alone?  I'm feeling insecure again ;-)

Exporting grid content to web page (for further use in other programs) is great - just one thing: how can I get the Icons used in IQ to export as well? What I get right now are the names of the icons as text instead.

 

Thanks!

Susanne

Hyperlinks in HTML pane seem to be working only in browse mode. Is it the way it is?

Thanks,

Jay

 I discovered I have a form which does not appear in my manage forms list; how can that be?

I've been trying to find a way to mark all the forums, or even just a subforum as read, other than going through each post with unread posts.

 

I usually use the What's New page to get an overview, and then read the new items that look like they are of interest. It would be nice if there was a way to mark the rest as read.

 

Oh, and please change "BonationCoder" in the info line below the Living room to "DonationCoder" .

I was trying to use the Print Preview->WYSIWYG printing of the complete grid dialog and made some observations.

 

The preview window always opens a tiny window showing a full page at an illegible 18%. It would be nice if it remembered it's size and position.

 

There does not appear to be any way to change printer options, it always prints to the default printer using the default settings. I have a print to pdf driver installed that I wanted to use, but it went to my default inkjet. The Print button should show a standard print dialog.

 

If a field in the grid being shows is wider than the page it will insert a blank page. Maybe it would be possible to add some kind of optional auto-scaling to the dialog?

Or it might be better to avoid this preview dialog all together and always export to html and use the much nicer html print preview dialog?

When inserting a hyperlink with the HyperLink dialog (btw, why is the 'L' upper-case?), the tab order of the window seems counterproductive. It start on the OK button, and then proceeds around the buttons, and then the edit fields in reverse order.

 

I think it would be better if it started in the top edit, went on to the next edit, and then to OK, following the assumed workflow.

e.g. :  Numberfield = -2       BackColor=&h283AFF

 

This won't work.

 

But  Numberfield < 0 will work.

 

 

Can anybody confirm ?

 

P.S. I also have a question for Pierre : would it be feasible to use conditional formats with strings (e.g. TextField = "SomeString") ? Or at least maybe be able to use a <> 0 or = 0 to signify "isnull()" or "not isnull()" ? This would make the conditional format much more useful and similar to Outlook "automatic formatting".

In IQ, Auto-complete as we've been accustomed to it in recent years only works when certain field options are used.

 

(In the Editor section of the field management dialog)

 

1- "must be in the list"

2- "read only"

 

Only then does it do the auto-complete thing. Is there a reason for that ?

 

 

I think auto-complete should always be available whenever there's a list configured for a field (whether it's and "auto-list" or not).

This has become a standard in many apps nowadays.

 

(For those who don't want auto complete, there's always F2 and the drop down menu for easy selection. For the realted issue with drop down menus and F2, see Drop down menus in grids and Properties pane : should all be triggered by F2)

 

Opinions ?

Right now, AFAICT, only in a few situations do drop down menus appear in the grid when F2 is pressed (calendar, read-only drop down lists mainly), and in the grid I think only the dates will show the calendar -- any other drop down menu won't ever show. Actually, editing these fields (with preconfigured lists) can be quite a challenge in the properties pane.

 

This should be standardized so that all drop down menus appear when pressing F2 in the grid or the properties pane.

 

Opinions ?