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EccoPro: Why has nobody developed a clone so far?
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Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Sep 9, 2007 at 01:36 PM
Tom wrote:
Very interesting design, though. My only concern is that the interface might turn out to be cluttered. But we’ll see.
I couldn’t find a price. Its not free… is it?
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Thanks. The interface can be made as uncluttered as you wish. At it’s base, you have a grid, same as Excel. Various panes can be opened and made floating or docked if needed. If you want it as a 2 pane, it can be as simple as a single column tree and an rich text editing pane.
SQLNotes is beta tests, which is expected to last till the end of 2007, It is however very stable and you can use it, import your data into it without worry.
It is free during beta and contributing testers will get a free licence. Price, when released has not been set, but will likely follow traditional pricing scheme.
Posted by Mike H
Sep 9, 2007 at 04:23 PM
I’ve been beating on it pretty heavily. I have some views/grids which are pretty sparse and others which are pretty loaded up. I’ve been testing it on a workstation with 19” monitors, but also a Samsung Q1. I can tune SN to work well with both.
What I like about SN and ECCO is that you can have a lot of control over the interface. What I like about SN, in particular, is Pierre’s approach to try and make it useful and appealing to Ecco users, but also to keep an eye on modern technology. You can get data in and out easily because od ODBC compliance. His decision to use an HTML editor instead of RTF will really pay off.
I think if you spend some time with SN, you’ll be pretty impressed.
Mike
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Sep 22, 2007 at 01:16 AM
Mike H wrote:
>I’ve been beating on it pretty heavily. I have some views/grids which are pretty
>sparse and others which are pretty loaded up. I’ve been testing it on a workstation
>with 19” monitors, but also a Samsung Q1. I can tune SN to work well with both.
>
>What I like about SN and ECCO is that you can have a lot of control over the interface. What I
>like about SN, in particular, is Pierre’s approach to try and make it useful and
>appealing to Ecco users, but also to keep an eye on modern technology. You can get data
>in and out easily because od ODBC compliance. His decision to use an HTML editor
>instead of RTF will really pay off.
>
>I think if you spend some time with SN, you’ll be pretty impressed.
Thanks Mike,
And new features are coming real soon:
- Rich text in the outliner/grid
- Combo-views where multiple grids can be opened at once and tiled, docked, floated
- Live interactive charts
- Unicode text editing and UI
- Outlook style calendar including alarms and recurring events
- Live-sync with MS Outlook
- iCal sync with web calendars
- Full featured Gantt chart for project management
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Oct 30, 2007 at 08:39 PM
Just to keep users informed, SQLNotes now supports
- Live interactive charts
- Ecco Pro imports