On 03/16/2012 11:48 AM, Manuel Collado wrote: > El 16/03/2012 10:41, Hussein Shafie escribió: >> Carlos S. wrote: >>> >>> For intellisense I mean, we want to show a list of selectable >>> elements at the main editor panel, while the user is typing. >> >> I'm really sorry but XMLmind XML Editor has not been designed to do this. >> >> Note that even if this worked, I don't know how to make this feature >> quick and easy to use in XMLmind XML Editor, as our editor has *3* >> different insert commands: Insert Before, Insert (into) and Insert >> After. Note that each Insert command has a different list of >> ``selectable elements''. > > Well, not exactly the same thing, but it should be possible to open the > element selection tray at the place of the edit pop-up menu. This way > the user is not disturbed by having to move the "focus of attention" to > the far right side of the screen to select the desired element to insert > at a given place. > > Please see an attached composed image to illustrate the idea. > > IIRC, once upon a time there was a XXE version that allowed to do that. > I've looked for this feature in the docs, without success. Am I missing > something? >
We have removed the preference which allowed to activate an Edit dialog box rather than the Edit tool. Our rationale was: * A modal dialog box which appears in the middle of the main window (possibly hiding what you are currently modifying) is not much ``seamless'' than a non-modal pane which is found at the top/right of the window. * Modal dialog boxes often cause keyboard focus problems. --- PS: For the curious. If you edit the GUI specification of XMLmind XML Editor and comment out the Edit tool, I guess that XXE will fallback to the Edit dialog box. See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/gui/index.html -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
