Here are the steps that will trigger a stuck inspector, and how to get the inspector unstuck. I don’t have a screencasting tool, but hopefully the screenshot sequence is comprehensive enough. If anyone else would like to chime in and verify or give differing scenarios, please do.
Open the project. The sample project has a couple of documents, each with its own synopsis and notes (shown in the inspector).
I just discovered this step is very specific. A change of text must be made AND it must be done in the bottom editor. In the vertical view, I think it must be in the right editor.
While still in the bottom editor, click on the no split icon to stop the split view AND
keep the edited document in focus.
Re-open the project. The inspector is now stuck. In the screenshot, it stuck on the wrong document right off the bat; it showed scene 1’s notes and synopsis, even though the editor is focused on scene 4.
Clicking on another document still won’t make the inspector change. See, still showing scene 1 in the inspector even though I’ve moved to scene 3 in the editor.
Whoo, these steps worked for me to reproduce the stuck inspector using the vertical split and editing in the right editor, as suggested. Using Win7.
Also, the synopses and document notes are unnecessary for the stickiness. Mine were all blank, because I was lazy.
Thanks, scribbles!
Edit: Whoa, wild extra update, potentially related? On the reopen (when the inspector was stuck) I did another vertical split, then started editing in the left editor (same document), then clicked in the right editor. The left editor’s header stayed blue (as though it has focus) even as the right editor went blue as well. Clicking back and forth between them, into the inspector, or loading a new document via the binder didn’t fix it. I had to unsplit and resplit to get it normal. I’ve repeated this a few times now (get the inspector stuck, then a double-focus header) with both horizontal and vertical splits.
Huh! I get the same header behavior with horizontal splits, too. I didn’t notice–I must have been too busy freaking out over my “lost” document notes the first time around
Haha, I wanted to make sure there was no question that the inspector was stuck in my screenshots, since it’s static and not a screencast. Plus… .I got to write “Suddenly, squids appear!”
To be specific (and maybe I missed this in the above post), to FIX this, you click the horizontal split so that both the top and bottom are pointing to the same document then click on it again to close it down. Then it “unfreezes” it.
