Hi KevinH
Just to let you know I have managed to find a couple of work arounds so that I have virtually got what I was suggesting.
I had accidentally found the Preview Window went MUCH wider than I had ever taken it before and if it was docked at the left side it was unlikely I would accidentally move it. This was much of what I wanted.
I then thought about toggling the Preview Window on and off as am no longer the hotkey king I once was in the mid 1990s. My hand rarely leaves my mouse now, and had a brainwave. I have a couple of spare buttons on my new mouse so I had a look in MajorGeeks and found a small utility that allowed me to assign the F10 key to one of the unused buttons. I can now flip between a very large Preview Window and Codeview without taking my hand off the mouse. (see attached screenshots).
I probably would not come up with this solution without the discussion in this thread.
I have made this post so that others realize that sometimes rather than asking for Sigil to be changed that a bit of ingenuity, checking what Sigil will do and a bit of third party freeware they may be able arrange things so they can work as they wish.
It would be nice if the old BookView icon was added to a toolbar. and used to bring up the Preview Window I would then ditch the third party utility and use the icon but that is inconsequential now.
One final question - is it possible to lock the dockings, window sizes etc. I have fat fingers and am heavy handed and sometimes accidentally move, close or resize windows.
DiapDealer
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You may not think you're asking for Book View to brought back, but if that's the functionality you desire, then that's exactly what you're asking for without realizing it. Can't/won't be done.
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No I was not asking for Book View to brought back. From what I remember of the discussions the people who wanted to keep book view "
because they wanted to edit files in Book view," I have evolved far past that. The solution I evolved above gives me what I want without Book view or any changes to Sigil necessary.
