Ah, so that's why XXE seems to switch image locations unexpectedly; I'm switching documents. This behavior has caused me some problems.
I'd prefer the chooser defaulting to the document's folder when clicking on an image placeholder. The reason is: I have each docbook file co-located with an images/ folder containing that docbook's images. Defaulting to the last used images/ folder is almost always wrong in my case. Now that I know the secret, I'll be more careful when faced with "???"; but it would be nice to set the behavior via a preference. thanks, Clark Karr On 07/13/2012 12:35 PM, Hussein Shafie wrote: > On 07/13/2012 04:48 PM, Philippe Nobili wrote: >> It seems that this problem, which had been solved a couple of releases >> ago, has shown again in release 5.3.0 of XXE; here is the description: >> >> when editing the "fileref" attribute of imagedata, the trailing "???" >> characters added by default after the current directory location >> prevents the file selector from opening directly into the right >> directory. Instead, the file selector opens on the lastly used location. >> >> This is a very annoying behavior when working simultaneously on >> different documents located in different directories, since we have >> permanently to scan up and down the file hierarchy to retrieve the >> ad-hoc image locations. >> > When in document /home/john/doc/chapter2/chapter2.xml, you double-click > on an image, say /home/john/images/user.png, the image chooser dialog > box (http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_tutorial/insert_image/index.html) > allows you to choose a file in /home/john/images/. > > When in document /home/john/doc/chapter2/chapter2.xml, you double-click > on an image *placeholder*, say /home/john/doc/chapter2/???, the image > chooser dialog box allows you to choose a file in last used image folder > (for example: /home/john/images/; not /home/john/doc/chapter2/). > > Moreover when you quit XXE, restart XXE and then reopen > /home/john/doc/chapter2/chapter2.xml, last used image folder is > remembered. That is, XXE stores in the user preferences file this > association (in preference key lastSelectedURLForDocument): > > /home/john/doc/chapter2/chapter2.xml <--> /home/john/images/an_image.png > > If my memory serves me well *you* have requested this behavior. We have > implemented it and didn't change anything to it since then. > > I've retested what I've described above on both Linux and Windows and it > works fine. No regression whatsoever. > > > -- > XMLmind XML Editor Support List > [email protected] > http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
