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The Enlightened Ones :: Prune to linked collection

John McCreery — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:31:25 GMT

Author: John McCreery
Subject: Prune to linked collection
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 3:31 pm (GMT 0)

This new feature does not appear in the regular Help. Caused some confusion until I went to the manual where the instruction to select a figure and right-click appears.

The Enlightened Ones :: RE: Gantt example

jmh — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:16:36 GMT

Author: jmh
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:16 pm (GMT 0)

I've been thinking about this gantt chart and scheduling tasks in curio in general. I fully realize this request may be of limited utility for man users, but it doesn't hurt to make it. I believe the current increment in task times is 'days'. And I would like to request that we be able to schedule tasks which increment at the minute level.

I work in preclinical pharmaceutical research which involves animal experiments which have several animals involved and dosing and sampling is time sensitive. This means that experiments need to be designed fairly tightly, hence the need for minute increments in task planning.

The Enlightened Ones :: RE: Mail as pdf, black background in Mail

sirque — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:53:05 GMT

Author: sirque
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 1:53 pm (GMT 0)

Wow - what a great forum!

dzec was right: it is a Safari issue. Installing 5.0.1 solved the problem!
I never would've thought that a Safari-update can cause a problem between curio and mail...but there you go...

Thanks everyone!
Chris

The Enlightened Ones :: RE: Mail as pdf, black background in Mail

george — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:29:59 GMT

Author: george
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 1:29 pm (GMT 0)

Great sleuth work! Did you download 5.0.1? Did it fix the problem for you?

The Enlightened Ones :: RE: Mail as pdf, black background in Mail

dzec — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:35:23 GMT

Author: dzec
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 12:35 pm (GMT 0)

This is likely a Safari issue. I quote the Apple support tech note.

Mac OS X v10.5, 10.6: Mail messages generated by applications may have a black background after installing Safari 5 or Mac OS X v10.6.4
Last Modified: July 28, 2010
Article: TS3385

Symptoms
After installing Safari 5 (with Mac OS X v10.5.8, Mac OS X v10.6.2, or v10.6.3), or after installing Mac OS X v10.6.4 (which includes Safari 5), you may see a black background instead of readable text in Mail messages that are generated by some applications. These are some of the Apple and third-party applications that may be affected:

Mail
AppleScript
iCal
iChat
Preview

FileMaker Pro
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Other applications that generate Mail messages may also be affected.

Products Affected
Mail, Safari 5 (Mac OS X 10.6), Safari 5 (Mac OS X 10.5)
Resolution
Download and install Safari 5.0.1 or later.

The Enlightened Ones :: RE: Mail as pdf, black background in Mail

george — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:26:25 GMT

Author: george
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:26 am (GMT 0)

Can you send me an email (george at zengobi) with the idea space (use File > Mail As > Curio Project and click the button to just send the selected idea space)?

The Enlightened Ones :: Mail as pdf, black background in Mail

sirque — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:34:58 GMT

Author: sirque
Subject: Mail as pdf, black background in Mail
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:34 am (GMT 0)

Hi everyone,

not sure this is a curio issue, but since this is the only software this incident happens with, I'll give it a try.
Lately if I try to "Mail as--_>pdf" Mail opens correctly but the background of the e-mail body is black. The Text is also black (it becomes visible when you select the text).
Does anyone know what's wrong? This feature used to work fine earlier. Unfortunately I can't connect this issue to any Software-update. Curio? Mail? Adobe? OSX?

Thanks a lot,
Chris

The Enlightened Ones :: RE: Alignment Guide

jonpcole — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:52:43 GMT

Author: jonpcole
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:52 pm (GMT 0)

Thanks. That did it.

The Enlightened Ones :: RE: Alignment Guide

george — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:17:57 GMT

Author: george
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:17 pm (GMT 0)

It's under the Arrange menu: Show Snap Guides, Edge Snap, and Center Snap.

You can toggle Edge Snap by hitting the S key (just S, no command key). Likewise you can toggle Center Snap by hitting C.

The Enlightened Ones :: Alignment Guide

jonpcole — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:09:58 GMT

Author: jonpcole
Subject: Alignment Guide
Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:09 pm (GMT 0)

Sometimes when I'm dragging elements on a page a very handy alignment guide appears. Suddenly, I've noticed it's not there. Have I accidentally toggled a feature? If so, how do I turn it back on?

Thanks.

The Enlightened Ones :: RE: Variable for time of last change or save?

jonpcole — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:55:53 GMT

Author: jonpcole
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 6:55 pm (GMT 0)

Sorry that it's tricky. I supposed I was hoping that you might easily be able to create a sorted array of objects containing only the name of object and the date of last modification. I was then figuring you'd output that as a one of your list objects. If an object has been modified multiple times, I don't expect Curio to track that - just date of last mod.

But I am SURELY not telling you what to do. I understand that the more "tricky" the request, the less likely it is to make the cut.

The Enlightened Ones :: RE: Variable for time of last change or save?

george — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:12:08 GMT

Author: george
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 6:12 pm (GMT 0)

Hmm... that's a bit tricky. But I think I understand what you're looking for and I can see how it would be useful. Very interesting suggestion.

The Enlightened Ones :: RE: Variable for time of last change or save?

jonpcole — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:44:11 GMT

Author: jonpcole
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 5:44 pm (GMT 0)

I don't care so much that Curio tell me exactly what changed, but rather that page x was changed on <whatever> date.

As for whether or not it's actually the page changes that are listed, that depends on the level of granularity that you choose to support with the new variables.

But I wasn't hoping to have you track the nature of the change. But if a project contains a collection of objects that contain date/time info, then I'd simply like a list of those objects in date order.

The Enlightened Ones :: RE: Variable for time of last change or save?

george — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:32:48 GMT

Author: george
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 5:32 pm (GMT 0)

What do you mean a list of changes in date/time order? Do you mean for Curio to list what was actually changed (ex: "Font color is now blue.")?

The Enlightened Ones :: RE: Variable for time of last change or save?

jonpcole — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:43:26 GMT

Author: jonpcole
Subject: Variable for time of last change or save?
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 4:43 pm (GMT 0)

Forgive that this will sound greedy, as you've been so helpful and accommodating, but I might as well through out the idea...

If the variables we discussed can be supported at a future time, it would be WONDERFUL if it were possible to generate a list of changes in date/time order. I'd use it in every project.

Thanks,
Jon

The Enlightened Ones :: RE: Opening OneNote files

jepril — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:50:37 GMT

Author: jepril
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 4:50 pm (GMT 0)

thx for the info.

The Enlightened Ones :: RE: Opening OneNote files

george — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:15:23 GMT

Author: george
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 3:15 pm (GMT 0)

Not currently although that's increasingly becoming a popular request.

The Enlightened Ones :: Opening OneNote files

jepril — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:37:23 GMT

Author: jepril
Subject: Opening OneNote files
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:37 pm (GMT 0)

Hello. I participate in a workgroup that exchanges information using Microsoft OneNote. Is there any way to open or import such files in Curio and conversely export or write the Curio files so that they can be opened/imported into OneNote? Thanks

The Enlightened Ones :: RE: Variable for time of last change or save?

george — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:34:27 GMT

Author: george
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:34 am (GMT 0)

Got it. Sounds good to me!

The Enlightened Ones :: RE: Variable for time of last change or save?

jonpcole — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:27:01 GMT

Author: jonpcole
Subject: Variable for time of last change or save?
Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 11:27 pm (GMT 0)

You were correct in assuming that my initial and primary interest is in a variable that returns the last modified date for the entire project.

Secondarily, because I'm a greedy bastard, if it were easy to implement, I'd also like a variable corresponding to the last change date for a page. This would mean that any form of change to any attribute of the page, including a change to any element of the collection of objects it contains, would update the variable.

My purpose in wanting these might help - I am finding it wonderfully useful to publish a project to a web site that's secure. When those who examine visit, I'd like to easily be able to let them know the date of the project's change so that they know if there's new stuff. After they know the project contains a change, they will likely click through pages to find those with today's date.

Jon

The Enlightened Ones :: RE: Variable for time of last change or save?

george — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:07:04 GMT

Author: george
Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:07 pm (GMT 0)

This is the right place to make the request.

However, I thought at first that you meant the last modified for the project. Now I understand that you probably meant the last modified for an individual figure. Is that correct?

The catch is that a figure is considered "changed" if you change anything: color, font, border, etc. Is that useful to you?

I think a project "last saved" date would be pretty useful. I've used that same kind of variable on title pages in an MS Word document, for example.

The Enlightened Ones :: RE: Variable for time of last change or save?

jonpcole — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:54:39 GMT

Author: jonpcole
Subject: Variable for time of last change or save?
Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 8:54 pm (GMT 0)

Can I consider it suggested, then, or do I need to post the request formally somewhere else?

As long as I"m asking, if this is easily done, there might be sub-categories of this request. For example, it would be of great help to have access to the last update to the .curio file (I think you call this a project).

Also, it would be useful to be able to access last change date/time for a page (I think that's an "ideaspace").

That all said, although new to Curio, I have quickly found this software to be a compelling reason to own a Mac. I was addicted to OneNote in a prior life and always lamented leaving it behind when I shifted environments. But after using Curio, you couldn't make me go back. It's SO much more versatile.

thanks,
Jon

The Enlightened Ones :: RE: Variable for time of last change or save?

george — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:01:31 GMT

Author: george
Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 1:01 pm (GMT 0)

We don't have something like that currently although it's a great idea.

The Enlightened Ones :: Variable for time of last change or save?

jonpcole — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:41:40 GMT

Author: jonpcole
Subject: Variable for time of last change or save?
Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:41 pm (GMT 0)

Is there a way of inserting an auto-updatable variable that shows the date/time of the last change?

The Enlightened Ones :: RE: Inserting emails in Curio

jonpcole — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:48:24 GMT

Author: jonpcole
Subject: Inserting emails Curio
Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 1:48 pm (GMT 0)

Thanks VERY much. I guess I wasn't dragging sideways initially, so I thought the feature wasn't supported.