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Originally Posted by cybmole
i think we are using "tab" to mean different things.
I mean tab as used by MSword, IE etc, so if I want to work on 3 books in sigil I would have 3 top level tabs - below that there would be the chapters, toc , stylesheets etc for each book within each of the 3 tabs, but I'd have only one instance of Sigil running , not 3.
is there some technical reason why sigil.exe takes 5 - 25 secs to launch yet bloatware like MSword will launch instantly...
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I cannot comment on Sigil 7.1 as I never installed it but 7.2 opens instantly for me (early approx. 3.15GHz CPU, Win 8). For my own usage, I agree with the comments that tabbing books in a single instance (window) of Sigil would lead to tab overload.
Mentioning IE is not a good idea as IE opens a separate iexplore.exe process for each tab
. So if the same was applied to Sigil for tabbing each book then one would still be running a separate sigil.exe process for each book and presumably you would have the delay that you now do each time you opened another book.
MSWord, since at least 2007, has not had tabs. But the use of it as an example is fair. MSWord opens one winword.exe process regardless of the number of documents opened or separate views of the same document (that is almost always so, sometimes it doesn't happen that way but I don't know if that is due to errors or due to coding simplifications for handling certain situations). Each document opened or view of an existing document appears as a separate instance running in its own parent window complete with all menus, ribbon, etc. That is, it appears as if another new winword.exe process has started, and all in its own new parent window.
So, if looking in Task Manager one will see in the Details tab one winword.exe process, and under the Processes tab one will see Microsoft Office Word and indented under that a separate instance for each document and view e.g. for the case of 3 documents open and one of those documents having 1 view open, one having 2 views open and another having 3 views open, the indents will appear as follows
Document 1.1
Document 1.2
Document 2
Document 3.1
Document 3.2
Document 3.3
Now that was not all said for the purpose of being pedantic, but because it leads to if Sigil were to work in that way as MSWord does (each instance, whether that be a new book or separate view of an already open book, opens in a new Window appearing as if a new process has started) then I think that for me that would be a pretty neat solution.
This at the users display would look just like Sigil does now when a new book is opened (or another view of that same book if one runs another sigil.exe process as one now has to to do so) but only one sigil.exe process would be running.
But I suspect it may not be very simple to achieve (however, I am no programmer). And the next best thing is for it would be as it now is i.e. a separate sigil.exe process seems to run for each book and any speed issues (which for myself have never experienced) in starting each process be looked at, whether the issue is at the users end or within the application.