[I7] Table of Contents

[Adam Thornton]

On Jan 6, 2008, at 12:12 PM, Andrew Hunter wrote:

>
> OK, I think I've managed to wrangle the UI for this into something  
> that's worth looking at. I've uploaded a new version to <http://www.logicalshift.co.uk/etc/Inform-dev.zip 
> >. There's still a lot of polish missing from this, but it should be  
> good enough to play with.
>
> I've also uploaded a couple of screenshots to <http://www.logicalshift.co.uk/etc/TOCshots.zip 
> >.
>
> In this version you can bring up the heading list and pick a section  
> to restrict the source code view. The 'torn' page interface should  
> also be functional, but there's no editing or dragging things around  
> yet, and performing an edit that crosses the boundary where the  
> source code is 'torn off' will cause a fairly major display. There's  
> a bunch of more minor cosmetic issues as well.

Not bad at all.

Although I note that I can't seem to go back to "Whole file at once  
mode"--that is, clicking on the title, which I would expect to give me  
everything, does not.  Volume-at-a-time is the best I can do.

I get two "Headings" tabs in the top line, the new one to the left and  
the old one to the right, and clicking on anything in the old one just  
beeps at me and refuses to do anything.  If I open a secondary source  
window and don't use the new interface, I get the beep but the source  
view in that pane does jump to the right place.


> Something to note is that currently the two source tabs display  
> independent ranges, so you can view two different sections in the  
> two tabs. I don't know if we want to keep this behaviour or not.

I like this ability, but that's because I have a few big tables (like  
the Table of Footnotes) that I reference from all over the source, and  
it's handy to be able to bring up that table on one side and the part  
of the story I'm currently working on in another.

Also, just as a side-note: I prefer the hummingbird to the fruits.

Adam