(Relating to XMLmind XML Editor version 8.0)
When clicking a R/O button when the referenced file is already open for
editing, XXE could benefit from issuing a warning to the user.
Background:
Version 8 has 3 new toolbar buttons which opens files in read only mode
(namely "Open Topic R/O", "Open Page R/O", and "Open Resource R/O".)
Because, if the file is already open for editing (in another tab or
window) when the R/O button is clicked, the user is simply brought to
the existing tab/window where the file is already open. As a result, the
user might end up thinking that the file is indeed in read only when it,
in reality, is not. (
And by the way, the opposite is also the case: If the file is open for
read only already, pressing the Open Topic button will not be converted
to editing mode.
The Tabs of XXE are easily hidden for the user. Depending on the size of
the screen, or whether the Window has been split in two, or whether the
file names are long or short, the room for Tabs can quickly decrease. My
XXE editing window sometimes only have room for two visible tabs on my
20inch monitor. And so it is not, in my judgement, a rare thing that
users might loose track of which files are open (in this or that mode)
already.
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Leif Halvard Silli
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