multiple document viewing

[vickie]

Hi,
In your 'road ahead' you mentioned that Scrivener would become a single document interface. Please, please leave the ability to open additional documents in separate window! I have two monitors and I like to synthesize from multiple tangents and to be surrounded by my references.

Hopefully since this is already in Scrivener, it isn't a great hardship to leave it!

Also, could the split windows work more like Xcode, where you click in one or another split, and after that when you click on the document name, it appears in the split window that had the input focus (so you don't have to drag the document to the second split)? Ideally I'd like the split windows to work just like Xcode, where you can have multiple splits....Well, you said this was a wish list!

Having said all of that, it could stay as it is, and would still be a brilliant tool.

Vickie

[KB]

Hi -

In your 'road ahead' you mentioned that Scrivener would become a single document interface. Please, please leave the ability to open additional documents in separate window!

Actually, this is something I changed my mind about - the new version *will* still have the ability to open separate editor windows. The only difference is that you won't double-click to open them (double-clicking now edits), you hit a button in the toolbar or Cmd-Shift-O (or something like that) instead.

Also, could the split windows work more like Xcode, where you click in one or another split, and after that when you click on the document name, it appears in the split window that had the input focus (so you don't have to drag the document to the second split)? Ideally I'd like the split windows to work just like Xcode, where you can have multiple splits....Well, you said this was a wish list!

There won't be multiple splits anytime soon. I considered this, but decided against it, because it just gets cluttered and complicated; not to mention that the new interface combines all the view modes, so it makes less sense in the new environment. That said, I like the idea of the current focused view getting switched upon clicking in the binder, so I'll look into that.

All the best,
Keith

[janra]

I'd just like to weigh in against the current focussed view getting the new document in split-screen.

If I'm working on one file and opening multiple others for reference, I prefer to put the document I'm working on in the "drag file to open here" pane; that way I can just click on the document tree and, no matter which document I clicked in last, it's my reference document, not the one I'm working on, that gets swapped. That is exactly the behaviour I want.

-janra

[KB]

Given that both approaches make equal sense, I have made this a preference in the next version. By default, the current focussed view will get the new document, but it's just a matter of checking a checkbox in the general preferences pane to restore current behaviour.