Re: Feature request: viewing text results not in a separate Foxtrot window but in the main preview
FoxTrot Engineering
>However, for my work I experience an interface limitation. I usually revise
>results in lists of nearly a hundred academic files. It is too time
>consuming to open a separate window for each of them in order to see the
>lines where the results appear. And this kind of concordancer is the deal
>breaker for my use of the app. Wouldn't it be possible to have the option
>to show such concordancer in the main preview window?
The list of occurrences in the selected document is available in the preview in the main window, but in a pop-up menu, above the preview. You can even uncheck some of the searched words to only show the others. Can this work in your workflow?
We can consider adding all the features of the separate document window to the main window, but I fear that the user interface would become too complex, especially on small screens. Another option would be to have two different preview modes: the current one, in the right part of the main window, and another one in a separate document window, with all the features of this window (PDF thumbnails and table of contents etc) and of the current preview (date and size, Finder tags, file path), but dynamically displaying the currently selected file in the main the window. What do you think of this?
Thanks for your feedback
Jérôme - CTM Engineering
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Jose Antonio M M
Jérôme,
I think your last proposal is a better solution to the issue I pointed out than the one I proposed. FoxTrot windows are functional and well thought out. I don't see the need to change them either. It will be enough if the secondary window (for searching inside a document) was dinamically linked to the main window (search results of files). That is to say that when documents are selected in the listing of the main window, the same secondary search window, if opened, will dinamically correspond with the selected document in the main window. Instead of having to open and close the secondary window for each document listed in the main window that the user wants to check inside, as I believe it is now. I attach an image and hope I have understood well.
