Jens Noeckel wrote:
On Dec 26, 2007, at 12:56 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
Jens Noeckel wrote:
On Dec 25, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Jens Noeckel wrote:
Hi,
on Mac OS X 10.4 with LyX 1.5.3 (Intel), text input in the main
window slows down to a crawl when editing a large document while at
the same time the cross-reference window is left open. It's not
noticeable with small documents. I have more than a hundred cross
references in the document that I tested, and typing speed is
limited to about 2 characters per second.
I wonder if this also happens on Windows or Linux platforms?
I think so yes. This is because *all* opened windows are updated with
each keystroke. The cross-reference dialog is maybe not as optimized
WRT updates as it should.
Jens
As an addendum: this issue is already present in LyX 1.4.4 on the
same platform. Of course the work-around is to always close the
cross-ref window after inserting a ref, but for users with sufficient
display real estate it may be desirable to leave some of those
windows open all the time. Switching between open windows is somewhat
more convenient than opening and closing a window.
I understand that but there is a work around to this ui problem: use
the shortcut:
1) Alt-i r : the dialog will popup
2) arrow key up or down to select your label
3) enter : the dialog will hide and the cross-ref be inserted.
I believe this will improve your efficiency in writing document a lot
than when using the mouse to do the same thing. Just my opinion.
Abdel.
Yes, I try to do everything from the keyboard, that's why the modifier
keys are so important to me (see earlier messages). But cross references
are one of the few things where I can't get by without the mouse, simply
because the cross-ref window (usually) comes up with the "Cancel" button
highlighted instead of "OK",
Weird, it's defaulting to OK here on Windows.
and tabbing through the buttons until I can
press Return on the OK button is too time consuming.
What about 'Alt-o' for OK and 'Esc' for Cancel?
In that case, I
just find the reference by mouse and double click on it, which also
closes the window as you suggested.
I'm thinking about filing an enhancement request to allow searching
inside the cross-reference list (useful for large numbers of
references). Maybe the default button of the cross-refence window should
really be OK instead of Cancel.
It should I think, and it does here.
But I wonder if that should be filed as
a bug rather than as an enhancement request.
Looks like a bug on Mac indeed... put it on bugzilla.
Abdel.
