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meme · 12-19-2011, 12:04 PM

I've looked around a bit more, so here are some additional comments (possibly a repeat or two, and possibly unrelated to the beta). Running on Ubuntu 11.10 using latest compiled source:

F&R - no warning/dialog is shown if you try Count/Find/Replace in Book View mode with Look set to All HTML Files - it should notify you that only the current file is checked
F&R - hitting return does not search for the word shown in the Find box. Open the F&R box and type a word to search for then hit return. Close the F&R box. Highlight a different word at the top of the file in Book View mode. ctrl-f (highlighted word goes into the Find box). Hit Return -> it searches for the last text you typed in the Find box and not what was shown in the box. The highlighted word does go into the Find history though.
Replace next incorrectly replaces the first found word but works correctly on the 2nd and later matches. In Book view click at the top of the file. Open F&R and enter a find/replace word set. Click on Replace Next. The first occurrence of the word is replaced (wrong) and the second is highlighted. Click Replace Next again and the highlighted word is replaced and the next occurrence is highlighted (ok). It works ok when it replaces next across files though.
Replace previous does not leave the cursor at the start of the replaced word. Replace next correctly leaves it after so that if you replace hi with hi1 and keep doing it it will stop correctly for Replace Next, but for Replace Previous it will just keep replacing the same word.
Edit->Insert Existing File should be Edit->Add Existing File(s) - since this is consistent with right click in the book browser and the heading of the Add File dialog - e.g. it doesn't insert a picture like insert a file, it adds it to the book browser
The tooltip on the Insert Image icon says "Choose an image from the disk and insert it into the text. You can select and thus insert multiple images at once." but since you aren't selecting the image from the disk - its from from the book browser - it should say something like "Choose image(s) from the book browser to insert into the text. Use Edit->Add Existing File(s) to add images to the book browswer."
In book view you cannot click/double-click on an image to select it - therefore you can't easily delete it with the delete key, and you can't select it and switch to codeview to be place at the image's location
Images are not resized when you use the zoom slider
Undo does not work for split at chapter marker or split chapter
The Book View/Split View/Code View seems to be dependent on the last state of a particular file instead of your current settings. So if you open a file and set code view, then go to another file and set book view, when you go back to the other file you are in code view again. Now this may or may not be a bug. Personally I expect that if I've clicked split view, that any file I open opens in split view, not what it was last viewed at. But others may prefer the current behaviour.

Enhancements while I think of them but not v5

Is it possible to swap the book view/code view - so that in split view mode the code view is on the left and book view is on the right, or make it user selectable
Right click on image to view properties (size) of pictures
Drag and drop of images into the text

Oh, I still have that Qt issue where the right click menu and font look different in my compiled version of the source. Personally I blame 11.10 and Unity (though its growing on me it still has a way to go). Maybe I need to nuke my installation.

12-19-2011, 12:04 PM	#20
meme Sigil developer Posts: 1,274 Karma: 1101600 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle PW, K4 NT, K3, Kobo Touch	I've looked around a bit more, so here are some additional comments (possibly a repeat or two, and possibly unrelated to the beta). Running on Ubuntu 11.10 using latest compiled source: F&R - no warning/dialog is shown if you try Count/Find/Replace in Book View mode with Look set to All HTML Files - it should notify you that only the current file is checked F&R - hitting return does not search for the word shown in the Find box. Open the F&R box and type a word to search for then hit return. Close the F&R box. Highlight a different word at the top of the file in Book View mode. ctrl-f (highlighted word goes into the Find box). Hit Return -> it searches for the last text you typed in the Find box and not what was shown in the box. The highlighted word does go into the Find history though. Replace next incorrectly replaces the first found word but works correctly on the 2nd and later matches. In Book view click at the top of the file. Open F&R and enter a find/replace word set. Click on Replace Next. The first occurrence of the word is replaced (wrong) and the second is highlighted. Click Replace Next again and the highlighted word is replaced and the next occurrence is highlighted (ok). It works ok when it replaces next across files though. Replace previous does not leave the cursor at the start of the replaced word. Replace next correctly leaves it after so that if you replace hi with hi1 and keep doing it it will stop correctly for Replace Next, but for Replace Previous it will just keep replacing the same word. Edit->Insert Existing File should be Edit->Add Existing File(s) - since this is consistent with right click in the book browser and the heading of the Add File dialog - e.g. it doesn't insert a picture like insert a file, it adds it to the book browser The tooltip on the Insert Image icon says "Choose an image from the disk and insert it into the text. You can select and thus insert multiple images at once." but since you aren't selecting the image from the disk - its from from the book browser - it should say something like "Choose image(s) from the book browser to insert into the text. Use Edit->Add Existing File(s) to add images to the book browswer." In book view you cannot click/double-click on an image to select it - therefore you can't easily delete it with the delete key, and you can't select it and switch to codeview to be place at the image's location Images are not resized when you use the zoom slider Undo does not work for split at chapter marker or split chapter The Book View/Split View/Code View seems to be dependent on the last state of a particular file instead of your current settings. So if you open a file and set code view, then go to another file and set book view, when you go back to the other file you are in code view again. Now this may or may not be a bug. Personally I expect that if I've clicked split view, that any file I open opens in split view, not what it was last viewed at. But others may prefer the current behaviour. Enhancements while I think of them but not v5 Is it possible to swap the book view/code view - so that in split view mode the code view is on the left and book view is on the right, or make it user selectable Right click on image to view properties (size) of pictures Drag and drop of images into the text Oh, I still have that Qt issue where the right click menu and font look different in my compiled version of the source. Personally I blame 11.10 and Unity (though its growing on me it still has a way to go). Maybe I need to nuke my installation.