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Posted by Ken
Apr 21, 2014 at 11:09 PM
Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>Both of these are easily possible with InfoQube (recent discussion right
>here on OutlinerSoftware). In recent versions, the UI has been
>significantly simplified, so you may want to give it a go.
>
>Pierre
>IQ Designer
>http://www.infoqube.biz
>
Hi Pierre,
I will give it another look to see how the new UI works for me. I know that you have put a lot of time and effort into this program, so reconsideration is the least I can do.
Thanks,
—Ken
Posted by Wayne K
Apr 22, 2014 at 02:31 AM
Pierre,
Yes, thanks. I downloaded the latest version a couple of days ago and am giving it another try. I know that it’s capable of doing that and a lot more,and the fact that it’s somewhat modeled on Ecco Pro makes it an obvious choice for me. I’ve just had a hard time grasping it in the past. Usually, I can go into a new program and pretty quickly figure out how it works. That hasn’t been the case with InfoQube. I end up frustrated because it does things I don’t understand and because I can’t figure out how to get it to do what seems like simple things.
I really appreciate the work you’ve put into this project. The fault is on my end. I’m just going to have to put in the time to really work through it and go back through your website tutorials. I know you’ve been very generous in offering your help to users and I may need to call on you for some more of that.
Wayne
Posted by Wayne K
Apr 22, 2014 at 02:35 AM
Ken,
Yes, I use colored text, too There are only three that work well: red, dark blue, and dark green. I sometimes use gray italics in place of strikeout text for completed items. I still miss highlighting, though.
Posted by jimspoon
Apr 22, 2014 at 03:14 AM
I never realized it wasn’t possible to apply a “highlight” format to selected text in Ecco.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ecco_pro/conversations/topics/13198
But Slang did implement text highlights for various purposes ... e.g. highlighting of hits on search text.
So it seems a bit odd that highlighting of selected text wasn’t made available.
Posted by Chris Murtland
Apr 22, 2014 at 03:24 AM
Actually, eccoext does allow you to apply a highlight - sort of. Choose an item, right click and choose “Background color.” The only caveat is that it applies to an entire item, not just selected text.