On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, R. Lahaye wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I discovered that the Reference dialog has two faces:
> (1) When performing a Insert->Cross reference.
> (2) When Left-Mouse-Clicking on an existing reference.
>
> The appearance in (2) looks like a stripped version of (1).
> (the selection field, <Update> and <Sort> buttons have
> been removed).
>
> However, I would strongly prefer to have the same (full)
> dialog in both cases (for (2) you may force a highlight
> of the corresponding reference in the selection field).
>
> The stripped dialog does not allow me to change an existing
> reference to another one. Why? To do that now, I have to
> first delete the existing one, then Insert->Reference a new
> one. The full dialog popup with an existing reference,
> would allow me to do the two steps in just one!
Because they are conceptually different things. Changing the reference is
equivalent to entering a new one. This will not change.
> A bug is in the (two) reference dialogs:
>
> - Do an "Insert->Cross reference".
> This will popup the full Reference dialog.
>
> - Leave the previous Reference dialog open, but now
> also Left-Mouse-Click on an existing reference in
> the text. The already open Reference dialog is resized,
> but filled with "blank space" (nothing in it).
Thanks, Rob. This is a bug. I'll have a look.
Angus
