Possible Bug in Sigil 0.8.7

[Toxaris]

What would be the effective difference Kevin?

[KevinH]

Tidy is a bit more agressive about making changes especially with inline css and a few other things. As it would be easy to do, I thought it might help people make the move to the Sigil-0.9.0 series when they often start with absolutely horrible html as input.

Kevin

[dhdurgee]

For some reason the forum software will not allow me to search the forum, so I am unsure if this has been addressed before.

I am running 0.8.7 on linux here and find that if I hit F8 it does as expected open a metadata editor window, but the focus is not shifted to the metadata editor. I assume this is a bug, but am unsure if it has been addressed in the 0.9.0 release which is yet to be available to me.

Another issue, which I would classify perhaps as a nit, is that there is no keyboard shortcut to access the Plugin menu. This forces use of the mouse or multiple keystrokes if the user wants to access the Plugin menu.

Dave

[KevinH]

Hi Dave,

Originally Posted by dhdurgee

For some reason the forum software will not allow me to search the forum, so I am unsure if this has been addressed before.
I am running 0.8.7 on linux here and find that if I hit F8 it does as expected open a metadata editor window, but the focus is not shifted to the metadata editor. I assume this is a bug, but am unsure if it has been addressed in the 0.9.0 release which is yet to be available to me.

Sigil 0.8.7 is actually quite broken when it comes to Qt Signals and Slots. I would not use it. If you really want to use the 0.8.X series I would stick with Sigil-0.8.6. As for focus shifting or not without a click, I have no idea. Qt has many platform specific focus differences.
As for searching the forum history, google alone does a nice job.

Originally Posted by dhdurgee

Another issue, which I would classify perhaps as a nit, is that there is no keyboard shortcut to access the Plugin menu. This forces use of the mouse or multiple keystrokes if the user wants to access the Plugin menu.
Dave

Yes, launching plugins is menu driven and the menus are built on the fly from the the available plugins the user has loaded and by plugin type. There are no plans to change this.

In some future release, we plan to add 5 user definable buttons to launch up to 5 different user selected plugins but that is something for the future. Assigning keyboard accelerators to specific plugins may also be doable at some point.

Thanks,

KevinH

[dhdurgee]

Originally Posted by KevinH

Hi Dave,

Sigil 0.8.7 is actually quite broken when it comes to Qt Signals and Slots. I would not use it. If you really want to use the 0.8.X series I would stick with Sigil-0.8.6. As for focus shifting or not without a click, I have no idea. Qt has many platform specific focus differences.
As for searching the forum history, google alone does a nice job.



Yes, launching plugins is menu driven and the menus are built on the fly from the the available plugins the user has loaded and by plugin type. There are no plans to change this.

In some future release, we plan to add 5 user definable buttons to launch up to 5 different user selected plugins but that is something for the future. Assigning keyboard accelerators to specific plugins may also be doable at some point.

Thanks,

KevinH

As 0.9.0 is out and will hopefully be available for linux shortly I will wait and see if that release behaves any better. My use of Sigil will be only occasional from this point forward, so I can wait and see if that works better.

Thanks for some insight into future plans, sounds useful.

Dave