I have a question that circles around the editing windows of single glyphs.
When I double-click a glyph from the font window, its editing window appears on top of the font window. Nothing in surprise till now. Now I double-click a second glyph because I would like to compare it to the first one. See what happens: The second glyph takes the on-top-position and the first one slips behind the font window. Now you’ve got to do some minimizing, moving and other maneuvers to have the opened font window in the back and the two editing windows side-by-side on top of it.
Do I handle the programme too awkwardly ?
Thanks for a hint!
Sincerely yours
Klaus
By the way: Really useful, that glyph-cutting knife!
You’re not doing anything much wrong, and as far as I know, this behaviour is normal for most Windows applications. It stands to reason that if you click on the overview window it will come to the front, and will obscure the smaller glyph edit window that you just opened.
There are work-arounds. One is to reduce the size of the overview window to just the bottom half of the workspace. The other is to minimize the overview window after opening the second glyph edit window, and to tile the two glyph edit windows vertically.
Also, check out the glyph comparison toolbar, which enables you to view other characters to the left and right of the current glyph while editing it.
Windows handling could be improved, but it might not be easy if the program relies on functions built into the Windows interface. My request for Tiling Windows would enable the overview to be maximized, but still in the background.
There are some great new features in Font Creator 5.