Suggestion for UI enhancement: FileTree view with caption bar and Save Modified Files Dialog.

[kitepad]

1. It's better if FileTree view has a caption bar to contain a toolbar, and have some toolbar button for toggle FileTree visibility, navigate to parent folder, even other functions, such as filter by file extension, file search.

2. Currently, we have to deal with save dialog one by one for unsaved file when I closed bowpad, it's better if have a single dialog to list all unsaved file and can select files to save.

[wmjordan]

I'd also suggested adding a toolbar to the file tree view in #85.

[stefankueng]

1. toggling the file tree visibility from such a toolbar is useless: the toolbar won't be visible if the file tree isn't.
2. there's already an autosave option available which saves all unmodified files automatically to temp file and restores them on the next load (the "Session" button at the far left, right of the "save" button in the ribbon). If you don't want that, then the you're asked for every file, but that dialog has a checkbox which allows you to do this for all files.

[kitepad]

1. I think UI will be better if have a caption bar with close button when ribbon bar is minimized. And I can close file tree quickly, otherwise I have to show ribbon bar and click other tab and click FileTree icon to hide it.

2. I have tested all these functions you said, but I think it is not better when have multiple modified files but I want to save some. I think user experience should better if using dialog like below:

3. I have another confuse for "auto save", when "auto save" is disabled, open a file, the file indicated as unsaved. I think it's not accepted because I don't have any action on content, only open it in editor.

[wmjordan]

1. I can close file tree quickly, otherwise I have to show ribbon bar and click other tab and click FileTree icon to hide it

If you often want to toggle the display of the File Tree, you can right click the File Tree button on the Ribbon Bar and click the Add to Quick Access Toolbar command. After that you can toggle the file tree on the top of the caption bar of BowPad without the Ribbon Bar.

[kitepad]

I know that. But it will disappeared when I hide whole ribbon (modified source code to hide ribbon).

[stefankueng]

Ctrl+Shift+F also toggles the tree view.

[wmjordan]

@kitepad Sorry for bothering. How did you modified the source code to hide ribbon? I am interested in building a BowPad core (#138) which has no dependency on Ribbon that it may run on Windows Server Core. Could you kindly share your modifications?

[kitepad]

void CMainWindow::ShowRibbon(BOOL state) { m_ribbonVisible = state; IPropertyStore* pPropertyStore = NULL; HRESULT hr = m_pRibbon->QueryInterface(__uuidof(IPropertyStore), (void**)&pPropertyStore); if (SUCCEEDED(hr)) { PROPVARIANT propvar; PropVariantInit(&propvar); UIInitPropertyFromBoolean(UI_PKEY_Viewable,m_ribbonVisible,&propvar); hr = pPropertyStore->SetValue(UI_PKEY_Viewable,propvar); pPropertyStore->Commit();

    HMENU pSysMenu = GetSystemMenu(*this, FALSE);
    MENUITEMINFO mii = {sizeof(MENUITEMINFO)};
    mii.fMask        = MIIM_TYPE | MIIM_DATA;
    GetMenuItemInfo(pSysMenu, IDM_TOGGLERIBBON, FALSE, &mii);

    std::wstring la = state ? _T("Hide Ribbon") : _T("Show Ribbon");
    mii.dwTypeData  = const_cast<wchar_t*>(la.c_str());
    
    SetMenuItemInfo(pSysMenu, IDM_TOGGLERIBBON, FALSE, &mii);

    if (state) {
        ::DeleteMenu(pSysMenu, IDM_FILE_MENU, MF_BYCOMMAND);
    }
    else {
        ::AppendMenu(pSysMenu, MF_STRING | MF_POPUP, IDM_FILE_MENU, _T("Show File Menu"));
        
    }
}

}

[kitepad]

Actually, to hide ribbon you only need following code: BOOL m_ribbonVisible = FALSE; // TRUE : show ribbon, FALSE: hide ribbon IPropertyStore* pPropertyStore = NULL; HRESULT hr = m_pRibbon->QueryInterface(__uuidof(IPropertyStore), (void**)&pPropertyStore); if (SUCCEEDED(hr)) { PROPVARIANT propvar; PropVariantInit(&propvar); UIInitPropertyFromBoolean(UI_PKEY_Viewable,m_ribbonVisible,&propvar); hr = pPropertyStore->SetValue(UI_PKEY_Viewable,propvar); pPropertyStore->Commit();

[wmjordan]

Dear Kitepad, Thank you for your information.