Suggestions for Sigil Improvements or New Features - Page 9

KevinH · 01-24-2026, 01:43 PM

We are running out of dock spaces but I can look to see if I can make it non-modal and add a Refresh button so it can be left open and used repeatedly. Lots of people use smart clipboard history apps that might be useful as well. I will try to add a min title bar button too.

KevinH · Yesterday, 01:01 PM

Okay, I was able to make the Clipboard History Selector dialog non-modal, and added the ability to auto refresh the history as new text added to the clipboard. Also add a Min button to the titlebar for those without a lot of screen space.

As as extension, I also made GetInfo dialogs non-modal to allow for multiple reports at once.

These changes have been added to master.

I have also kept the table of suggestions in this post updated for those who want a fast summary of accepted suggestions implemented so far:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...8&postcount=83

KevinH · Yesterday, 01:11 PM

Okay, based on repsonses so far (3 in favour, 1 either way is fine, 1 against (me)), I have reordered the status bar line to now start with the character name, then the codepoint value and end with line and column, so that the line and column positions are not so radically changing.

I will not try to pad the line or column to a fixed number of digits as I have seen epubs where the entire epub is in a huge single file, and even worse epubs with no new line characters in any single file, leading to huge changes in the number of digits in the line and column values.

I have pushed this change to master.

DNSB · Yesterday, 02:57 PM

Please read read KevinH's comments in message #96 in this thread before installing this code.

Anyone who is interested in testing the Windows build of the Sigil beta, here is a link to a compile of the 2026-Jan-25 code: Sigil-2.7.5-Windows-x64-Setup.exe.

philja · Yesterday, 03:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KevinH

FWIW, a websearch shows Windows 11 does finally have a new feature to make the default encoding utf-8 for all apps, as it is in Notepad now, even for older apps.

But off course it defaults to off, is hidden under Region setting even though utf-8 is regionless, etc. But at least it is there. Hopefully Windows 11 users will find this and enable it so that their system can be just like Web, MacOS, and Linux systems which have had this capability built in for years, so that they can make/edit text that can contain any word, no matter the language. The days of old 8-bit encoding codepages has long passed.

Failing to find this setting in W11, I did a Google search which gave the following from learn.microsoft.com :

Quote:

Set a process code page to UTF-8. To configure your app to render UTF-8 text via GDI, go to Windows Settings > Time & language > Language & region > Administrative language settings > Change system locale, and check Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support. Then reboot the PC for the change to take effect.18 Jul 2025

Sadly, when you're at 'Language & Region' there is no obvious 'Administrative language settings' and a search in Settings says it doesn't exist.

Further exploration in 'Language & Region' shows the top item is 'Windows display language' and this box has a drop down arrow at far right side (not the one to change the language selection) which when pressed reveals the Beta setting for UTF-8.

Hope this is useful to Windows users.

KevinH · Yesterday, 04:05 PM

Thank you. It sounds like they made it nearly impossible to find. Nice detective work!

Here is a hopefully useful link:

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/enable...dows-11.38649/

Turtle91 · Yesterday, 04:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KevinH

Okay, I was able to make the Clipboard History Selector dialog non-modal, and added the ability to auto refresh the history as new text added to the clipboard. Also add a Min button to the titlebar for those without a lot of screen space.

As as extension, I also made GetInfo dialogs non-modal to allow for multiple reports at once.

These changes have been added to master.

I have also kept the table of suggestions in this post updated for those who want a fast summary of accepted suggestions implemented so far:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...8&postcount=83

Thank you!!

Yesterday, 01:01 PM	#122
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 9,264 Karma: 6565382 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Okay, I was able to make the Clipboard History Selector dialog non-modal, and added the ability to auto refresh the history as new text added to the clipboard. Also add a Min button to the titlebar for those without a lot of screen space. As as extension, I also made GetInfo dialogs non-modal to allow for multiple reports at once. These changes have been added to master. I have also kept the table of suggestions in this post updated for those who want a fast summary of accepted suggestions implemented so far: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...8&postcount=83 Last edited by KevinH; Yesterday at 01:41 PM.

Yesterday, 04:05 PM	#126
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 9,264 Karma: 6565382 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Thank you. It sounds like they made it nearly impossible to find. Nice detective work! Here is a hopefully useful link: https://www.elevenforum.com/t/enable...dows-11.38649/ Last edited by KevinH; Yesterday at 05:59 PM.

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01-24-2026, 01:43 PM	#121
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 9,264 Karma: 6565382 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	We are running out of dock spaces but I can look to see if I can make it non-modal and add a Refresh button so it can be left open and used repeatedly. Lots of people use smart clipboard history apps that might be useful as well. I will try to add a min title bar button too.

Yesterday, 01:11 PM	#123
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 9,264 Karma: 6565382 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Okay, based on repsonses so far (3 in favour, 1 either way is fine, 1 against (me)), I have reordered the status bar line to now start with the character name, then the codepoint value and end with line and column, so that the line and column positions are not so radically changing. I will not try to pad the line or column to a fixed number of digits as I have seen epubs where the entire epub is in a huge single file, and even worse epubs with no new line characters in any single file, leading to huge changes in the number of digits in the line and column values. I have pushed this change to master.

Yesterday, 02:57 PM	#124
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 49,826 Karma: 176799834 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	Please read read KevinH's comments in message #96 in this thread before installing this code. Anyone who is interested in testing the Windows build of the Sigil beta, here is a link to a compile of the 2026-Jan-25 code: Sigil-2.7.5-Windows-x64-Setup.exe.