[oXygen-user] Perspective

[Adrian Buza]

Mark,

"Perspective" was both a a menu and a toolbar in v11.2.
In v12 the actions from the "Perspective" menu were moved to the 
"Window" menu. The "Perspective" toolbar remained in v12.

"Configure Toolbars" is used(as the name suggests) only for toolbars. 
It's true that some of the toolbar names there probably mirror menu 
names but that's just a coincidence, they are not the same.

I'm guessing that what happens is that there are too many items in the 
toolbar on a row and they cannot all fit on that row so they get 
"compacted" and a drop down arrow appears and hides the toolbar icons 
that could not be fit. This way of cascading toolbars is a fallback for 
toolbars that won't fit so it's not exactly user friendly. Simply hide 
unused toolbars or spread them across several rows to resolve this.

A screenshot would clarify the situation even better. If possible then  
please send one to  if you want to keep it off the 
user-list.

Adrian Buza
oXygen XML Editor and Author support

Tel: +1-650-352-1250 ext.202
Fax: +40-251-461482

http://www.oxygenxml.com

Mark wrote:
> Hello Adrian,
> Thanks for your answer. Not quite: I want Perspective to appear in the 
> menu as in earlier versions.
>
> I am using <oXygen/> XML Editor 12.0, build 2010091411 on Windows 
> Vista. I have not set any options differently than I did for version 
> 11. Oxygen opens in the editor. Unlike earlier versions,  Perspective 
> does not appear in the top menu, even though it is checked in the 
> Configure Toolbars dialog. There are only two ways I can open the 
> debugger:
>
> 1. Doing this makes the icons appear on the right end of the toolbar 
> initially.
> If I left-click on the toolbar itself, the dropdown always shows 
> Perspective without a yellow box and checkmark. If I click on the 
> dropdown Perspective, the four perspective icons appear at the right 
> of the toolbar, just after the Search icons. When I click on the 
> debugger icon, the debugger opens and the four perspective icons 
> immediately shift to the far left. When I finish with the debugger and 
> click on the editor icon, the four icons disappear. Clicking on the 
> toolbar again shows Perspective in the dropdown again without a yellow 
> box and checkmark. The yellow box and checkmark remain only so long as 
> the debugger is open.
>
> 2. Doing this makes the icons appear on the left end of the toolbar 
> initially.
> Or, if from the editor, I click on Window->Open Perspective->XSLT 
> Debugger, the four icons appear at the left end of the toolbar.
>
> In either case, clicking on the editor icon causes the icons for the 
> other perspectives to disappear. In no case does the Perspective menu 
> item ever appear in the top menu (as it did in earlier versions). What 
> I have is: File Edit Find Project Options Tools Document Window Help.
>
> I use the editor and the debugger extensively when I am doing 
> development and am finding this situation very awkward and clumsy.
>
> Hope this is clearer,
> Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Adrian Buza
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 12:14 AM
> To: Mark
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: [oXygen-user] Perspective
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> So, if I understand correctly, you want to keep the Debugger
> toolbars(Debugger status, control and engine) when switching to the XML
> perspective?
> These toolbars are only available in the XSLT Debugger perspective. If
> you need these toolbars when editing, it is simpler to stay in the XSLT
> Debugger perspective and just make visible the other toolbars(Validate,
> Transformation, etc) and views(Project, Outliner, etc) that you need.
> You can show any view from the main menu: Window -> Show View -> ...
> When switching the perspective, the layout of the previous
> perspective(toolbars and views) is saved so you only have to configure
> it once.
>
> Let me know if I misunderstood and you were trying to achieve something
> else.
>
> Regards,
> Adrian
>
> Adrian Buza
> oXygen XML Editor and Author support
>
> Tel: +1-650-352-1250 ext.202
> Fax: +40-251-461482
> 
> http://www.oxygenxml.com
>
>
> Mark wrote:
>> I have tried to force the XSLT debugger to stay on the toolbar 
>> (setting in in "Window" and in "Configure Toolbar"). Every time I 
>> return to the XML editor window, the debugger disappears from the 
>> toolbar. What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>>
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