[pilot-db-list] Some ideas

[Martin B. <mar...@pa...>]

Hello, I am new to this list.

First, thank you for nice application. I use it not so heavily, e.g. for
cooking recipes :-) or radio stations available in my city... It is the
only free database available for my Handera! Wow!

Now I have some notes on versin 1.1.0b1, they are of low importance, but
someone have to tell it :-) - But hey, I still love the app! :-)))

1- On DB list screen, if I tap on database, not whole line is inverted,
baseline to bottom of the line stays "black text on white"

2- Most dialogs (e.g. Create Database) have bad dimensions - they have
no right and left edges. I think you set the position too left and width
too much. But as far as I can see starting curve of the dialog edge, I
think it is about 2-3 pixels position and double for the width.

3- The issue with VFS was mentioned in the posting a few hours ago :-) I
too think that there should be some directory like /Palm/Programs/DB or
PilotDB or whatever do you wish.

4- Filters - I think that "search" is not sufficient for filtering. One
would expect more operators, like "is not empty", "is not equal to", "is
equal to" etc. I hope for one of the next versions (well, I have to read
some todo documents...)

5- Database view, column width: I think the settings doesn't corelate
with visible view. Handera has 240px wide screen... and I think (should
I check it or is it known bug?) that the visible widths are different.

I would consider only relative values - i.e. if I set widths to 1, 5, 3
(3 columns), I will not get pixel widths of 1, 5 and 3, but columns wide
in ratio 1:5:3...

6- Record view: reading - I still can change values from "select one
value from the dropdown list" columns, although edit lines are read
only. I was very confused when I encountered this for the first time :-)

7- Recocr view: note fields - is it possible to show the whole note
field possibly with ruler on the side if the text is longer? It would be
of a good help for my cooking database, I keep cooking instructions in 
a note field and I have to click the note icon... This would be *very*
nice feature!

Anyway, Pilot-DB is very nice application - among the other things it is
one of apps with Handera support! Thanks a lot!

Martin

If you would like to have Czech translation, I would be happy to help
you prepare the translation...

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