On 05/07/2013 01:53 PM, Bornemann, Frank (Oerlikon Neumag) wrote:
after using and adapting XMLMind for several years now, we still run into one handling sequence that is still bothering us a little.1. When inserting a pic file via drag & drop from a windows explorer folder, there is always the position source and target screen popping up like this: 2. Since most our pics are stored on a different server than the XML files (and we do not need relative path names and do not want them to be copied anywhere else), we always alter this screen in a way that the upper and lower fields are the same and they are used as a reference: 3. Since I assume that for some/most of the users the presettings you implemented are sufficient/correct, here is my suggestion for improvement: Add an option in the preferences of XXE that allows to select whether to insert pics by copying or referencing and if the letter is chosen, just take the path of the target position and do not show the screen above any more when dropping files from the explorer window. Does this seem sensible for you?
That would indeed solve your problem. However implementing this option represents a certain amount of work and in our opinion, would not be useful to the vast majority of our users.
The best we can do is to let the dialog box remember your last choice in order to avoid you specifying the destination path over and over.
Or this there even now a better handling procedure to avoid this copying and pasting procedure?
In theory, it should be possible to write a simple macro-command will would avoid displaying the dialog box. But I'm not 100% sure that it is possible to bind "drop" to a custom macro in the case of an image (which is already a drop site). We'll investigate this and possibly improve the flexibility of XXE regarding this.
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