[oXygen-user] Major issue with this app and multi stand-alone windows

[Oxygen XML Editor Support (Adrian Buza)]

Hello,

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.

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), *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.* 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.

*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.*

Workarounds for this problem:
* 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.
or
* close (or detach) all documents from the main Oxygen window.


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.

Regards,
Adrian

Adrian Buza
oXygen XML Editor and Author Support

On 13.09.2021 18:53, Karl Stubsjoen wrote:
> I have been struggling with this for years.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> It becomes very difficult (to impossible) to use the app when you 
> spread windows across your desktops.
>
> Is this a known issue and can this be fixed?  I'm a Windows user.
>
>
> Karl Stubsjoen
> (602) 845-0006
>
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