Hello,

Working with documents in standalone (floating windows) can be a little tricky because all the clickable actions (menu or toolbar) are attached to the main window.

If the keyboard focus for the main Oxygen window (the place where the text cursor blinks) is within a document from that window (it usually is), whenever you try to invoke a menu or toolbar action for a document from another window, you are also inadvertently switching the current document to the one from the main window. As a result the action or view you want to use either becomes unavailable, if a different type of document gets selected, or you may accidentally apply it to the document from the main window instead.

You can check which is the current document in the title bar of the main Oxygen window. If that changes when you try to use a menu action, that explains the problem.

Workarounds for this problem:
* set the focus (click once) for the main Oxygen window in a view (e.g. Scratch Buffer or Outline). You always have to check that the focus does not remain in a document from the main window.
or
* close (or detach) all documents from the main Oxygen window.


I'm not sure how we can improve this without disrupting other use cases. When you give focus to the main window (e.g. by clicking the toolbar or menu), Oxygen restores the focus to the region (document or view) where it was previously for that window. If the focus was left in a document, this also causes the current document (the one for which subsequent actions get applied) to be changed.

Regards,
Adrian
Adrian Buza
oXygen XML Editor and Author Support
On 13.09.2021 18:53, Karl Stubsjoen wrote:
I have been struggling with this for years.

When you drag any document into a new window, dialogs and menu options are no longer available.  For example, if I drag an Xml document from the main Oxygen window into a new standalone window and then try to use the menu option: DOCUMENT | SCHEMA | GENERATE/CONVERT SCHEMA; is not available.

Also, things like the Outline view, the Quick Search, Transformation Scenarios, etc.. all of a sudden are not available for any document that is hosted in a standalone window.

It becomes very difficult (to impossible) to use the app when you spread windows across your desktops.

Is this a known issue and can this be fixed?  I'm a Windows user.

 
Karl Stubsjoen

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