Some trouble with Sigil

[carmenchu]

I don't know whether there is some related thread, so there...

Yesterday, while editing, I began to notice the following abnormal behaviour:

1. Clicking to select and copy word, BOOK MODE, selected wrong, apparently random group, i.e.: two/three words on both current line AND the one up;
2. Selection persisting, even while
   • moving on caret and keyboard editing
   • clicking again either in Sigil window and outside it;
3. Select colour changing between blue and green -- ALSO in the Book Browser window;
4. Opening WordWeb (the Dictionary/Thesaurus) to paste copied word auto-scrolled active page to the beginning.

Now, some environment data:

1. Running under Windows XP, SP3
2. Sigil called from Calibre, Open_with plugin, BUT closing Clibre didn't end the trouble
3. I had just added .body{font-family: "Frutinger Linotype"} to the working style-sheet to improve my working-space (to be removed from book on completion: don't believe in hard-coding font information of any kind in XHTML-related formats)
4. WordWeb IS supposed to be able to capture selected words from some programs, and had done so from Sigil on some previous occasions -- NOT when trouble began.

I have included everything I suspect MAY be relevant -- and thanks a lot for Sigil!

[theducks]

Originally Posted by carmenchu

I don't know whether there is some related thread, so there...

Yesterday, while editing, I began to notice the following abnormal behaviour:

1. Clicking to select and copy word, BOOK MODE, selected wrong, apparently random group, i.e.: two/three words on both current line AND the one up;
2. Selection persisting, even while
   • moving on caret and keyboard editing
   • clicking again either in Sigil window and outside it;
3. Select colour changing between blue and green -- ALSO in the Book Browser window;
4. Opening WordWeb (the Dictionary/Thesaurus) to paste copied word auto-scrolled active page to the beginning.

Now, some environment data:

1. Running under Windows XP, SP3
2. Sigil called from Calibre, Open_with plugin, BUT closing Clibre didn't end the trouble
3. I had just added .body{font-family: "Frutinger Linotype"} to the working style-sheet to improve my working-space (to be removed from book on completion: don't believe in hard-coding font information of any kind in XHTML-related formats)
4. WordWeb IS supposed to be able to capture selected words from some programs, and had done so from Sigil on some previous occasions -- NOT when trouble began.

I have included everything I suspect MAY be relevant -- and thanks a lot for Sigil!

my 2cents (also XP SP3)
The blue - Green thing is both windows have selected text, BUT only the 'active window' (the Blue one) is in effect, you can switch windows by clicking once on the window title-bar and NOT lose either selection (IMHO a good feature )
I see the 'Go to Top' happen on actions that require a reflow and the insert point was 'lost' or invalid (as when switching from a CV edit)
BTW CV tends to scroll to the bottom on some actions

[carmenchu]

Thanks for the tip on the blue/green effect!
The auto-scrolling IS a bother, sure enough.