Hi, We try not to overwhelm the user with warning dialogs and at the same time not withhold information from him/her. The solution chosen so far has been to offer a link in the dialog to a section in the user manual that describes the changes/limitations that appear as a consequence of the user's actions. For example in this case a dialog was shown which asked if you want to 'Format' the document or 'Line wrap' it so it could be opened. But there was also a 'See help for details' link to the user manual that mentioned a few things that get disabled when using 'line wrap', specifically this one: http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/long-lines-document.html
Now, reading the message from the dialog again, I guess it's not that obvious that some limitations will be instated. It's only mentioned in the help section. Regards, Adrian PS: You can see that dialog again if you change in the Open/Save option pane to 'Always ask'. Markus Flatscher wrote: > Adrian, > > thanks for looking into this, and for the advice. Things work as usual > after following it. > > Is there a way for a user to obtain some information from the > application when certain settings change default behavior (a report, a > warning message, or the like)? > > Markus > > Adrian Buza wrote: >> Hello Markus, >> >> I've analyzed the files you provided and it seems you chose to always >> line wrap documents with long lines(>5000 chars on a line). >> However on line wrapped documents the XPath gives erroneous >> results(only the start tags are reported) so the XPath in the Find in >> Files has been disabled in this case as well. >> >> To work around this you can increase the maximum allowed number of >> chars on a line for a document in Options -> Preferences -> Editor -> >> Open/Save. >> Change the 'Format document when longest line exceeds' from 5000 to >> 10000 or 20000 and the XPath field will be enabled after reopening >> the editor. >> >> Regards, >> Adrian >> Oxygen XML Editor support >> >> Markus Flatscher wrote: >>> Sorin, >>> >>> yes, my data is well-formed. Is it possible that this is related to >>> file size? It doesn't seem to happen with small files, but only with >>> files of a size of 15K lines or so. >>> >>> Markus >>> >>> Sorin Ristache wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> The XPath field is activated in the Find/Replace diaog only if the >>>> document is well-formed XML. An XPath expression cannot be applied >>>> on a text fragment that is not well-formed XML. Is your document a >>>> well-formed XML one? If yes please post a small sample for >>>> reproducing the problem. >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Sorin >>>> >>>> >>>> Markus Flatscher wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi there, >>>>> >>>>> using oXygen 11.2, build 2010031611 on Mac OS X in text mode, I'm >>>>> unable to activate the XPath constraint box in the Find/Replace >>>>> dialogue (it seems to invariably stay grayed out). Is this a known >>>>> bug, or am I overlooking something? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> >>>>> Markus >>>>> >>>>> P.S. (O/T): thanks much for all those quick-and-timely XProc updates! >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> oXygen-user mailing list >>>> oXygen-user@oxygenxml.com >>>> http://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user >>>> >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ oXygen-user mailing list oXygen-user@oxygenxml.com http://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user
