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Posted by Jon Polish
Jun 19, 2009 at 05:11 PM
This is a question for Cassius. I am using Notemap and have not experienced the problem to which you refer. An long entry may appear NOT to contain all of the text, but I can see it if I click on the entry and scroll carefully down (I use the keyboard). Could you please let me know how I can duplicate your observation? I would certainly consider discontinuing using Notemap if I can replicate your situation on my machine.
Thank you Cassius.
Jon
Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Jun 19, 2009 at 10:56 PM
I can replicate your success using the keyboard. (I’m not sure what you mean by “carefully.” I find the only effective way to scroll is using the down arrow. Other than that, no additional carefulness is required.)
The feature is buggy, but it isn’t critical, as Cassius suggested. If the keyboard is the only way to navigate when you have full-screen note, it figures those of us using the mouse to navigate wouldn’t learn of your workaround.
But we’ll see if Cassius agrees.
Posted by Cassius
Jun 20, 2009 at 12:42 AM
Yes, with a long note one must carefully scroll or do something else to see the entire note. [I no longer remember what the “else” might have been.]
HOWEVER, there is NO doubt that I lost about a page of typed text in NoteMap. It was not just hidden, it was lost. I tried everything I could think of to retrieve it, including saving the entire document and reopening it, all to no avail. The text was part of a long note.
That is why I discontinued its use. I would have loved to use it, despite the peek-a-boo problems, but the irretrievable loss of text was too much.
I never experienced this in GrandView or in Inspiration, although I admit that I haven’t given Inspiration a thorough workout with long notes. (And Inspiration is not as “smooth” to use as NoteMap.)
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Posted by Gary Carson
Jun 20, 2009 at 01:05 AM
I was able to replicate it using the mouse. Haven’t tried with the keyboard.
It’s an irritating bug and inexplicable considering how expensive the software is, but it never really effects me because I don’t usually enter a lot of text in my outlines. The lack of ongoing development and support is more serious, IMO. I like NoteMap, but as far as I can tell, it isn’t compatible with Vista, which means that I’ll have to stop using it when I’m eventually forced to upgrade (right now I’m grimly hanging onto XP).
Posted by Cassius
Jun 20, 2009 at 02:13 AM
Hanging on to XP…YES. Too many programs have not been updated to Vista. I could use GrandView with Win 2000, but have many problems using it in XP, although some others seem to be able to use GV in XP with little trouble.
Wth respect to NoteMap, I was using it to write all of the book, not just an outline of it.
My son switched to a Mac a couple of years ago and just finished a book on video game production to be published in September. I’ll try to remember to ask him what software he used in writing it.