Single instance with multiple books

jcsalomon · 10-10-2017, 02:01 PM

Branching off from thread “Clips bar empty”:

Quote:

Originally Posted by KevinH

FYI, can't happen on Macs due to the unified single app instance with multiple windows for each book.

I get that Mac enforces this, and that not everyone even wants this on other platforms—but is there currently a way to open multiple files in the same Sigil instance under Windows? (Or is there no real difference to the user between that and running multiple simultaneous instances?)

Not a feature request; just asking whether a feature already exists.

KevinH · 10-10-2017, 03:01 PM

No it does not already exist on Windows or Linux but it could easily be made into a compile-time option for Sigil as Qt supports that paradigm on all platforms.

I personally prefer it so that I don't have or need multiple main processes and all of their associated threads running for no good reason.

It is the same paradigm used by Office on Windows and Mac.

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10-10-2017, 03:01 PM	#2
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 7,629 Karma: 5433388 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	No it does not already exist on Windows or Linux but it could easily be made into a compile-time option for Sigil as Qt supports that paradigm on all platforms. I personally prefer it so that I don't have or need multiple main processes and all of their associated threads running for no good reason. It is the same paradigm used by Office on Windows and Mac.