Newbie asks: how do I see "split screen"?

[Chuck M]

Good day. First post. Installed BlueGriffin 1.4 yesterday. Bought &
installed the full screen add-on. The screenshot for full screen shows
a dual view, both Wysiwyg and Code. I haven't found a way to achieve
that.

Searched terms here with no findings, until I used Dreamweaver's term:
split screen. That gave a few results, but nothing that solved my
problem. It did have a user saying: "there was an icon in the lower
right to create the split
screen option"

When I open a webpage, my bottom right doesn't have such an icon. It
only has the 1. view %, 2. snippets icon (uninstalled), and 3. the
full screen icon.

What I am missing? And what mods to my behavior will make me a better
forum member?

[Alain]

That's another plugin, called ActiveView. It is accessible through a small "hierarchy" icon at the bottom right of the BlueGriffon window.

[Alain]

Oops, I just tested, ActiveView seems to be broken with BG 1.4: there is no synchronization anymore between the split WYSIWYG and Code tree views.

[Chuck Miller]

On Jan 30, 2012, at 11:03 AM, Alain wrote:

Oops, I just tested, ActiveView seems to be broken with BG 1.4: there is no synchronization anymore between the split WYSIWYG and Code tree views.

I bought ActiveView yesterday (only five bucks) and could not make it work. Same problem. Thank you for letting me know I'm not alone. 

Chuck M

[Daniel Glazman]

Le 30/01/12 19:10, Chuck Miller a �crit :

Hmmmm, weird, it works fine here. I'll investigate tomorrow morning
when I arrive at the office.

</Daniel>

[Chuck Miller]

In case it matters any, I'm on a Mac.

Chuck M

[Daniel Glazman]

Le 30/01/12 20:22, Chuck Miller a �crit :

>>> I bought ActiveView yesterday (only five bucks) and could not make it
>>> work. Same problem. Thank you for letting me know I'm not alone.
>>
>> Hmmmm, weird, it works fine here. I'll investigate tomorrow morning
>> when I arrive at the office.
>

> In case it matters any, I'm on a Mac.

Well, I'm on a Mac too. I have in front of me BlueGriffon 1.4 and the
ActiveView add-on *downloaded from our online store*, ie the one you
also have. And everything works just fine. Sorry, I am unable to
reproduce your bug here :-/

</Daniel>

[Alain]

I can't reproduce it either today. ActiveView seems to be working fine.

 I had the problem on Windows, though.

[Chuck Miller]

I also have FullView, but don't normally have it employed. Could that be a conflict?

Could you say a bit about how it's supposed to work? To aid troubleshooting. Are changes on the left screen supposed to be quickly reflected in the right screen? Also, the display I would prefer is code (tree) on the left and Wysiwyg on the right. Work in either; see changes in other.

All I actually achieved was Wysiwyg (or tree view, but no purpose to that) on the left and tree view on the right -- with no changes reflected in the other view.

I'm Snow Leopard 10.6.8. Are you Lion? Are you lyin'? Sorry, puns are hard to resist, even when they make no sense.

Chuck M

[Chuck Miller]

On Jan 31, 2012, at 7:10 AM, Alain wrote:

I can't reproduce it either today. ActiveView seems to be working fine.

 I had the problem on Windows, though.

OK. This is weird and boring at the same time. 

I do not have the problem today either. (When it works.)

I am still fumbling around like a rank beginner. (Truth in packaging.)

I opened a test page. The ActiveView right side was completely blank. Tried a few things. No luck. So I opened the index page from a real website. With that I got the 2 little lines for head and html (or was it body?). Opened the latter and there was the code. With Wysiwyg on the left. A change on the left was reflected on the right and vice versa. Very nice. Thought I was in the saddle and headed for the herd. 

Then I wanted ActiveView to go away. But it wouldn't. Noticed the red shadow on the file name and thought maybe the file had to be saved. So I saved it. Then ActiveView would toggle on and off -- but the right side was back to being blank. Nothing I tried brought the tree view back. 

I'm tempted to pick up the new user guide. But my debit card tells me I should show that I'm capable of riding this horse before I buy more. Plus I don't think ActiveView and other addons are covered in the manual. 

Chuck M

[Chuck Miller]

On Jan 31, 2012, at 8:21 AM, Chuck Miller wrote:

I opened a test page. The ActiveView right side was completely blank. Tried a few things. No luck. So I opened the index page from a real website. With that I got the 2 little lines for head and html (or was it body?). Opened the latter and there was the code. With Wysiwyg on the left. A change on the left was reflected on the right and vice versa. Very nice. Thought I was in the saddle and headed for the herd. 

Then I wanted ActiveView to go away. But it wouldn't. Noticed the red shadow on the file name and thought maybe the file had to be saved. So I saved it. Then ActiveView would toggle on and off -- but the right side was back to being blank. Nothing I tried brought the tree view back. 

Not true. I quit BlueGriffin. Re-opened it. It opened with the recently-saved file (the one that hadn't worked) in split screen ActiveView -- with everything now working. 

To review: I had opened index.html from a small website (local). ActiveView worked. But I couldn't get out of ActiveView. Clicking the icon did nothing. 

So, since there had been some minor edits, I saved the file as indexTest.html. After the save, ActiveView wouldn't show any tree view code on the right. It was blank. I tried various things and gave up. Quit the program. 

Then a hunch said: see what happens if you re-open BlueGriffin. I did. It remembered the indexTest.html page and opened it in ActiveView. I had "html" which opened to "head" and "body". Opening body showed the code. I could work on either side and see the changes in the other side. 

Chuck M

[Alain]

Here is is again ! now ActiveView and Wysiwyg views are completely desynchronized: