[Hellmark]

Originally Posted by theducks

There is Now another Layer on the TOC editor.

The first layer (that you see) is active. Double click and it jumps to the place in the book. No longer do you need to know which file.
the second layer (that looks more like the original) is accessed by the button at the bottom.
The only thing lost/different is that you must edit the titles in the file. That is easy as you can simply click and jump (from the first level)

While the jumping to sections is cool, and does make it easier for some people. Besides renaming, I miss the keyboard hot key for the second layer too.

Originally Posted by meme

Thanks for the further explanation. I'll have to look at the old editor.

I think the current approach gives quite a lot of flexibility (even if it could use some improvement), although you do need to use it slightly differently. Personally I always keep the TOC window open (its great to type something in the toc.ncx file and see it instantly in the TOC window ) so using it to jump chapters as theducks says is quite useful (oh, the next version will sync the selected entry in the book browser to your tab to make it even more useable). And Generate TOC (think of it as Re-Generate TOC) from Headings still gives the functionality you mention, albeit not in one click if your TOC isn't open.

There is some functionality that could be added to the active TOC - renaming for one, possibly changing levels or even re-arranging (though that gets very messy with multiple chapters per file). And for the Generate, it could be expanded to include already existing TOC entries, Regex patterns, etc. But flexibility can bring confusing. But there are still bugs to sort out with merge/split of files and the toc.ncx file too...

I know things change, and that somethings get better and some worse. I just feel some changes can be made to make it better, and that bringing back some of the old features could help. One tweak I'd do, is just simply change the name from Generate ToC, to something else.

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Sorry for the confusion, I knew what you were referring to Hellmark. I was just reassuring cybmole that there was no change in manual NCX editing from 0.4.2 to 0.5.0.

I remember the old interface you're talking about... and I can see how someone who had gotten used to a graphical, simplistic way of editing chapter titles probably wouldn't appreciate having to then dive into xhtml/xml code to achieve the same thing in the newer versions. Hopefully someone can integrate something similar back into the gui for you (and others) in future release.

For me, I just feel if I am using a WYSIWYG, I want interaction with code to be kept to a minimum, just quick and dirty fixes. Being how most ebooks don't need anything fancy, that really isn't all that much. If I do have to do much monkeying with code, may as well do the entire thing by hand, because then idiosyncrasies of how the WYSIWYG generates code start clashing with my idea of how it should be done.