Nikos Alexandris schrieb: > On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 08:58 +0200, Manveru wrote: >> 2008/10/1 Nikos Alexandris:
>> > I was wondering if the View/Update buttons could be "shrinked" ... >> > first action is to "View" and if the [pdf] document is open then >> > second (re-)action should be "Update), ... >> I do not see clear mechanism for checking whether document generated >> is opened (window were not closed) or not. Certainly there could be an >> option to retrigger "View" action with shift key for example... but I >> think this would not be obvious for beginners. > My idea was based on the fact that the Update function exists. I mean, > if update is executed it does look for a specific created/open pdf > document? Doesn't it? "Update" creates a new version of the output file in a temporary directory (overwriting an earlier version if this exists). May viewers will automatically update the view of the file, others might require user interaction to redraw or re-read. "View" does additionally call a format specific viewer (customizable under Tools>Settings>...>Formats ) > So why not put a "check" in the View function and if the document is > already open then update-it, if not create it :-) The way to go would (IMO) be a script that checks if the given file is already open in a viewer and either * call the viewer with the file, or * force the viewer to re-read the file Setting this script as "view" commando for the "format", will enable a view/update functionality with the existing "view" function/button/keybinding. Günter
