I’m not sure if it’s a bug or whether I’m doing something wrong.
I have some layouts saved:
“Document View”: Binder, Inspector, Toolbar, Header, Footer, Ruler, Format Bar all displayed.
Full-screen outline: I’m in Outliner mode while the Binder, Inspector, Toolbar, Header, Footer are all hidden.
Full-screen corkboard: I’m in Corkboard mode while the Binder, Inspector, Toolbar, Header, Footer are all hidden.
Here’s what happens:
I’m viewing a single document while in my “Document Mode” layout.
I switch to my “Full-screen outline” layout (described above). Now, of course, nothing is displayed, because I was viewing a single document and not a folder.
I click CMD+OPT+B to display the Binder.
Still, nothing is displayed, so I switch back and forth to another document in the Binder then immediately back to the one I was working on, and my document is displayed again.
Now I want to see the Inspector, so I click CMD+OPT+I. The Inspector is displayed, but in the Notes section there’s no Notes Header (so I can’t switch between document notes and project notes).
See image (I just hid the document’s text):
When I quit and restart Scrivener, the Notes Header is displayed correctly:
It doesn’t happen while I’m in my full-screen corkboard layout.
Can you get this to happen every time? This is a bug that’s on my list - I’ve seen it myself but every time I go to do exactly the same thing that caused it before, I can’t get it to happen again. So if you can reproduce it every time that would be great.
Could you send me your layouts? You can find them in ~/Library/Application Support/Scrivener/Layouts. Zip them up and send them to me (send them to support AT literatureandlatte DOT com and put “FAO Keith as requested” in the subject line so Ioa knows to forward it straight to me), and then I’ll follow your instructions to reproduce it. Also, how big is your screen (so that I can reproduce it accurately)? It will b a few days before I get to look at it properly, but I want to squash this one for 2.0.1 and this will be a great help, thank you!
All the best,
Keith
I’m getting this issue too, and I’m trying to test it out a little more now to narrow down a way to consisently get it and figure out what’s causing it, and I feel like I’m hitting other weirdness en route.
At the moment, I seem to be always getting it when I switch back from a specific corkboard layout that is supposed to be freeform but which keeps coming up as the regular corkboard–“save outliner and corkboard settings” is checked although it wasn’t originally and I fixed and updated the layout but it seems not to have taken hold. However, consistently now when I use that full screen mode (and just use it as regular corkboard rather than correcting it to freeform) and switch out after editing text in a card or creating a new one, I get the missing document header. This does not happen regularly when using a different layout that really is intended to be the traditional corkboard view so I’m wondering if there’s something goofy in the one layout’s settings. Is it a bug that it’s not saving as freeform view?
I get this issue also just switching out of freeform as well from a freshly created freeform corkboard layout, so if there’s some strange carryover in the other layout where it’s still associated with freeform despite not displaying it, maybe that’s part of the trigger. Of course this doesn’t explain why an Outliner view would also get this problem.
I’m still trying to narrow this down, but that seems to be one of the constants at this point.
(2.0, Mac OS 10.6.4, MBP with resolution 1440x900)
EDIT: Just to be thorough, when I switch to the corkboard via my “regular” corkboard full-screen layout, it takes on the freeform corkboard mode since that’s the last view I had for corkboard, but it still won’t give me the “no header in document notes” error when I do everything the same as in the other actually freeform layouts. So using freeform corkboard doesn’t seem to be the problem; it’s something about having saved it in a layout. Theoretically.
Also, to be clear, this is always using the layout manager to switch into the corkboard mode. This doesn’t happen if I manually set up the layout by just closing the binder and inspector or if I set it up that way and then use the layout manager to switch back to my normal mode with the B&I open. I need to have switched to the corkboard layout via the Layout Manager, but provided I do that it doesn’t matter whether I use the manager again to switch back or if I manually open the B&I at that point; the problem occurs either way.
