Bookends 9.0.7

[thecritic]

Looks like a great update. "Reveal attachment" doesn't appear to be working for me via contextual menu in list view (it does work from the attachment inspector).

Anyone else?

In addition, I sure would like to see as a reference window title (i.e. in reference view) what is currently being displayed for the title of the attachment inspector!

[danzac]

Love the update and the attachment inspector!

One small thing. In my list view, my info panel is always opening on the left, even though my preference is set to whichever side has more room.

Danny

[Jon]

"Reveal attachment" doesn't appear to be working for me via contextual menu in list view (it does work from the attachment inspector).

This has been fixed in a silent update.

Jon
Sonny Software

[Jon]

One small thing. In my list view, my info panel is always opening on the left, even though my preference is set to whichever side has more room.

I switched over to letting the OS do the calculations, and it doesn't seem to do as well as my own code. If you move the window far to the left does it still open on the left? Where is your dock?

Jon
Sonny Software

[danzac]

Okay I played around with it a bit and here is the behavior. It will only open on the right if it knows that it can show the entire info panel. If it sees that some of the info panel will be offscreen if on the right, then it opens on the left (which throws it offscreen).
My list size was set so that if the info panel is open it fills the entire stretch of screen. When I decreased the width of my list, the same behavior persists. Hope this helps.

[Jon]

Thanks. I'll restore the old code in the next update. It looks like it does a better job than the OS.

Jon
Sonny Software

[tom]

Hi Jon,
"Open attachment" doesn't appear to be working for me via contextual menu in list view (it does work from the attachment inspector). It worked releases before; not that I downloaded yesterday.

Anyone else?

tom

[Jon]

Hi tom,

Yes, that broke because of a small improvment I made elsewhere. You can wait for the next update or, if you need it, I can make a silent update sooner.

Jon
Sonny Software

[tom]

Hi tom,

Yes, that broke because of a small improvment I made elsewhere. You can wait for the next update or, if you need it, I can make a silent update sooner.

OK, I can wait (and the short-cut, that I just discovered, does its job as well)

[frvs]

Hi Jon,

I just found an interestign piece of odd behavior when duplicating references. In reference view, when I copy /paste a reference, a new reference is created as expected, but I'm instantly taken back five references. For example, say I'm copying ref # 204. When I hit Paste Reference, I get ref # 200 before my eyes. Then I have to manually navigate to the new ref # 205 to edit it and continue working. This happens every time. (Next time I'm taken to ref # 201 and have to manually navigate to the new ref # 206, and so on).

[Jon]

Hi frvs,

Thanks, I'll look into it. You can also use the Refs -> Duplicate function, which doesn't have this anomalous behavior.

Jon
Sonny Software

[Jon]

Hi frvs,

The Copy/Paste reference functions have been superseded by the more capable Duplicate reference, so they will be removed from the next release.

Jon
Sonny Software

[frvs]

Hi frvs,

The Copy/Paste reference functions have been superseded by the more capable Duplicate reference, so they will be removed from the next release.

Jon
Sonny Software

Oh, I wasn't aware of the new duplicate function. Thanks for the tip.

[Sanderso]

I think the last time I used the server feature was in 9.0.4 and it worked fine. I've just been trying with both 9.0.6 and 9.0.7 and it serves the query page without any problems. It also correctly returns an error statement if you search for something that isn't in the database but it only returns the word "Error" when I search for something that I know is in the database.

This is using the default file from the "Serve databases in 5 minutes (or less)" and a new database using the tutorial data as well as my real database.

Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong?

(OS X 10.4.6 intel iMac)

[Jon]

Make sure the database is in the right folder (it used to be in the same folder as Bookends, but a few updates ago we changed it to ~/Documents/Bookends/Server/ -- I can't check this at the moment, so refer to the docs if that fails).

Jon
Sonny Software