On 15 Mar 2004, at 13:31, Hussein Shafie wrote:

> Jeremy Quinn wrote:
>> 1) folding
>> Now you have your nice folding interface features, would it not be  
>> time to add Menu Items that fold and unfold children etc. Like a  
>> normal outline editor would have?
>
> I don't understand what more can be done:

You are right.

> * Right-click on the icon of the collapser, the little triangle, and  
> you'll have a useful menu. (On the Mac, Control click)

Nice feature!
Sorry I missed it originally.

> * Now that you have the toggleCollapsed command, you can put smart  
> collapse/expand commands anywhere in the GUI.

Yes, sorry, I found that after writing the original email.
I was going to write another to rescind the request, but just thought  
that would cause confusion.
I now have a nice little group of menu items to control this.

>> Have you considered a styling that would preset the fold state of  
>> particular elements?
>> I would be interested in being able to specify that specific elements  
>> are by default closed, while others are by default open (when a  
>> document is opened).
>
> This is already supported by XXE. See ``proprietary'' CSS property  
> "collapsed" in  
> http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/docs/poweruser/ 
> ar01s06s03.html#collapsibleblocks

My apologies for missing that one !

>> 2) moving
>> Something that is still difficult to do in XMLMind is to move  
>> elements.
>> This has always appeared to be an obvious missing feature in XMLMind.
>> eg. rearrange list-items in an ordered list.
>> I was trying to write a script-button to do this a while ago, but  
>> never really succeeded ..... it would work in 90% of cases, but in  
>> the rest, it would just make a mess.
>> Drag and drop would be nice, but commands to do this reliably would  
>> be good.
>
> I remember your request perfectly well.
>
> "Rearranging list-items in a list" will be one of the demos of the new  
> ``macro-commands on the steroids'' which will be available in XXE  
> V2.6.

That is great news !!

Many thanks for your useful reply.

regards Jeremy
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