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[AveMaria02]

Hey everyone. As all of you know, E-Sword has three editors within the program itself, one of which is for Topic Notes. Well, i am wanting to edit one of my Topic Notes but I have no idea how to do so because every single one of the buttons for the Topic Notes editor is grayed out. How do I fix this?

[AveMaria02]

Hmmm, wait. I think I am trying to edit a Dictionary File (DCTX). Now I am so confused.

[Josh Bond]

Hey everyone. As all of you know, E-Sword has three editors within the program itself, one of which is for Topic Notes. Well, i am wanting to edit one of my Topic Notes but I have no idea how to do so because every single one of the buttons for the Topic Notes editor is grayed out. How do I fix this?

 

You need to click a new topic, and the editor icons will not be greyed out. Click where the red box is below and enter a topic title. The buttons will return to normal.

 

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The author of e-Sword says this is not a bug, technically speaking, that it's intended behavior. But it's a huge usability issue, or people wouldn't be asking every week.

 

Josh

[DoctorDaveT]

Not a bug; intended behavior...

 

...like intentionally letting spiders loose in your house. "I did that on purpose. It technically isn't a bug; it's an arachnid." Who does that on purpose?! I've complained about this from day one when eS10 was first released. I got "slapped down," even from surprising people....

[Josh Bond]

Not a bug; intended behavior...

 

...like intentionally letting spiders loose in your house. "I did that on purpose. It technically isn't a bug; it's an arachnid." Who does that on purpose?! I've complained about this from day one when eS10 was first released. I got "slapped down," even from surprising people....

 

Yes sir, I do remember your complaint the day the first non-beta release came out for 10.

 

I will admit, you were righter than I thought. I have fielded this question countless times. I've even done it myself a few times--there's more than one way this issue can happen. One way is if you move the topic note file you were last editing in e-Sword, and restart e-Sword, e-Sword grays out the whole topic editor.

[DoctorDaveT]

Yep. Turn your .topx into a .refx, and then move/remove/delete the .topx file, and the Topic Editor does not like what you've done. Memo to Rick: it shouldn't work this way....

[journey]

I wonder if Brother Rick would reconsider and make some changes in the next release. Yes, there are a few things that would make life easier if they were fixed.

[AveMaria02]

You need to click a new topic, and the editor icons will not be greyed out. Click where the red box is below and enter a topic title. The buttons will return to normal.

 

e-sword-topic.png

The author of e-Sword says this is not a bug, technically speaking, that it's intended behavior. But it's a huge usability issue, or people wouldn't be asking every week.

 

Josh

 

But that simply creates a new and blank topic file. I'm not wanting to do that. I am wanting to edit an existing topic file. Is there no way to do that?

Edited by AveMaria02, 18 April 2013 - 02:59 PM.

[Josh Bond]

But that simply creates a new and blank topic file. I'm not wanting to do that. I am wanting to edit an existing topic file. Is there no way to do that?

 

Yeah, you can edit a file. Open the file to edit (CTRL-Right click, Open). And create a new topic or edit an existing one, using the toolbar icons.

[Josh Bond]

Yep. Turn your .topx into a .refx, and then move/remove/delete the .topx file, and the Topic Editor does not like what you've done. Memo to Rick: it shouldn't work this way....

 

FYI: This was finally fixed in 10.2.1.

 

Also when you make a REFX file now, e-Sword prompts you for the file location to save it. That's a user friendly improvement too.