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Hello,<br>
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Working with documents in standalone (floating windows) can be a
little tricky because all the clickable actions (menu or toolbar)
are attached to the main window.<br>
<br>
If the keyboard focus for the main Oxygen window (the place where
the text cursor blinks) is within a document from that window (it
usually is), <b>whenever you try to invoke a menu or toolbar action
for a document from another window, you are also inadvertently
switching the current document to the one from the main window.</b>
As a result the action or view you want to use either becomes
unavailable, if a different type of document gets selected, or you
may accidentally apply it to the document from the main window
instead.<br>
<br>
<b>You can check which is the current document in the title bar of
the main Oxygen window. If that changes when you try to use a menu
action, that explains the problem.</b><br>
<br>
Workarounds for this problem:<br>
* set the focus (click once) for the main Oxygen window in a view
(e.g. Scratch Buffer or Outline). You always have to check that the
focus does not remain in a document from the main window.<br>
or<br>
* close (or detach) all documents from the main Oxygen window.<br>
<br>
<br>
I'm not sure how we can improve this without disrupting other use
cases. When you give focus to the main window (e.g. by clicking the
toolbar or menu), Oxygen restores the focus to the region (document
or view) where it was previously for that window. If the focus was
left in a document, this also causes the current document (the one
for which subsequent actions get applied) to be changed.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Adrian<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Adrian Buza
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13.09.2021 18:53, Karl Stubsjoen
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<div dir="ltr">I have been struggling with this for years.
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<div>When you drag any document into a new window, dialogs and
menu options are no longer available. For example, if I drag
an Xml document from the main Oxygen window into a new
standalone window and then try to use the menu option:
DOCUMENT | SCHEMA | GENERATE/CONVERT SCHEMA; is not available.</div>
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<div>Also, things like the Outline view, the Quick Search,
Transformation Scenarios, etc.. all of a sudden are not
available for any document that is hosted in a standalone
window.</div>
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<div>It becomes very difficult (to impossible) to use the app
when you spread windows across your desktops.</div>
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<div>Is this a known issue and can this be fixed? I'm a Windows
user.</div>
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