At 12:05 PM 8/20/01 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
>MSFT have also kept the "split" window option which gives two windows into
>the same document within the same frame. This is a useful feature for
>cutting and pasting bits from different sections of a large document. I
>use it all the time in emacs. At some stage I think Abi should acquire
>this feature too.

This would make for a nice meaty POW ... post-1.0, of course.  We've always 
had the ability to open multiple views on the same document (via Window / 
New Window), each in their own top-level window.  

However, AFAICT this functionality is rarely used, and hasn't been 
thoroughly tested.  Worse, many developers who submit patches to 
abi/src/text/* don't take this possibility into account -- heck, just 
getting undo right is a challenge -- thus making the feature more bug-prone 
over time.  

Still, conceptually it's not too difficult to imagine improving that work to 
allow a frame to parent multiple views of the same document.  IIRC, Jeff 
mentioned that some of the focus and toolbar/menu state notification 
dispatching logic would need to be upgraded for this.  The other trick would 
be to get the XP vs. platform work factored properly when packing the 
frame's widgets together. 

As I said, a very meaty POW, but a lot of the hardest work is done.  

Paul


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