On Jul 2, 2007, at 3:06 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > On 2 Jul 2007, at 5:53 PM, Derick Fay wrote: > >> I'll also post this to the sf feature requests. >> >> 1) If I start up BibDesk by double-clicking the icon, it obeys the >> setting in Preferences > Application Launch (set to a file called >> master.bib in my case) , but if I start BibDesk by dragging a >> reference to the icon, it disregards this setting and creates a >> new Untitled document & I need to manually open master.bib & drag >> the new reference in. Could there be an option to have imports >> automatically go to the file specified in Preferences > >> Application Launch? >> > > I don't think so. Imports should be added to a specific file, so a > file should be opened first before you add imports to it, without > exceptions, in my opinion. I don't like the idea of adding an extra > pref for this. >
But doesn't it seem contradictory that the preference is Application Launch > Open file... but in fact this only happens when the app. is launched by double-clicking on the application icon, not when the app. is launched through drag-and-drop? Rather than adding a separate pref. the behavior could be made consistent no matter how the app. is launched. >> 2) Would it be possible to have the directory set in Preferences > >> AutoFile > Papers folder location also be the default directory >> when one manually adds a file to a publication record? Or provide >> another preference setting to set a default location for this dialog? >> > > I'm not sure I understand you. What dialog are you talking about, > and how are you adding a file to a publication? Sorry - when I have a publication record open, then select the View File icon > Choose File... -- I would like this to default to the autofile location &/or have an option to set its default location. thanks Derick ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
