On 09/14/2015 12:34 PM, Martin Goik wrote:
I'd consider this feature to generally support productivity when
working on multiple (related) documents.
Understood.
Consider a master document to be edited among with a subset of
referenced chapters you are currently working on in document sequence
order (not yet considering assemblies). Closing and reopening chunks
leads to confusion with regard to sequence order. And inserting new
chapters will most definitely break sequence order.
My current workaround is closing all but one tab (typically the
master) and then re-opening the desired ones.
Sorry but I don't understand why it's important to keep the chapter
modules in order. But never mind.
It's similar to web browsers or IDE's like Eclipse/Netbeans/IntelliJ:
No one strictly requires tabs to be drag-gable. But once you have this
feature at your fingertips you simply get used to it. And this is
probably the reason why a wide range of applications do offer it.
Understood.
But I do understand: Good prioritization of feature implementations
will lead to even higher productivity. I've followed e.g. topics here
regarding MAC Book retina support. My own 3200x1800 Windows laptop
does not render XMLMind GUI too well. I've tried setting font default
font size and and tree view base font size but dialogs and the Xml
attribute window still remain SMALL.
I don't see why dialogs and the Attributes tool remain small.
If you use latest Java 8 on Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 (10 not yet tested) and
set the scale factor of your desktop to say 150%, then everything, but
the styled document view, XMLmind's menu/toolbar icons and the online
help, gets enlarged by 150%.
If you keep the scale factor of your desktop to 100%, then you'll end up
with tiny apps, whether XXE or any other app.
It's o.K. for myself but newbies
(and my students) struggle. And I vaguely remember a comment like "...
we do not yet know how to solve these problems for a XMLMind being a
Swing based application" (related to blurred fonts ??).
We are working on this problem but we are not sure to succeed.
- Mac Retina seems to be technically easy to support nicely: just add
hires icons to XXE. As we have hundreds of icons, this should take
dozens of hours of tedious work.
- I'm not sure to really understand how the combination Java
8/Windows/HiDPI works. At first sight, it seems that only the base font
size and the stock icons (e.g. checkbox) are automatically enlarged.
This is completely different from what happens on the Mac.
Best resolution for me so far is using a different resolution on OS
level which of course is a nuisance to other applications.
Indeed.
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