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  • Support for multi-server licensing

    Thomas Mangan
    • Accepted, Not Yet Planned
    • 1 Comment
    As part of a project to streamline the creation of both production and development resources, I would like to be able to automate the creation of XPP servers. Part of this would include validating the installation, which would include having the server...

  • Set free our numeric keypad! - take 2

    Bart Terryn
    • Under Community Review
    • 4 Comments
    First of all: No I am not asking to change the current behavior . I am just asking to add the following selectable feature to the system: please add to the xyview.ini and sdedit.ini a setting that will re-enable the normal numeric keypad functionality...

  • Add better support for the CSS color property

    Bart Terryn
    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    In XPP you can use the color property to define the foreground color of the text. You can do something like this: para { color: red; } or you can do something like: para { color: -xppc(19); } The named colors are limited to the 9 main colors that XPP...

  • Enable access to ALL system and frill variables

    Mark Hutchinson
    • Idea Delivered Partially
    • 15 Comments
    While there are pages and pages of system and frills variables, there are still many missing. When viewing the Status Window, there are many attributes and dimension values that are not accessible via the % or ! variables. E.g. !tbcypos - tabular...

  • Direct PDF debugging

    Bart Terryn
    • Accepted, Not Yet Planned
    • 0 Comments
    Direct PDF (using PDFLib) is playing a more and more important role in XPP. Some new features are only available through the use of Direct PDF. Direct PDF is the preferred future output method for XPP. It is great but not very friendly when you are confronted...

  • Named text registers

    Bart Terryn
    • Not Considering
    • 1 Comment
    We currently have name number registers which is making things a lot easier for the style developer. It would be great to have also named text registers. I know I have been asking this before but that request was bundled with the request to be able...

  • Method for adjusting the background opacity for dotted dashed tabular rules

    Thomas Mangan
    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    I'm making request to control the background opacity of the dotted and dashed tabular rules in order to handle client styles that use these rule types with shaded cells (fmcolor, fpat, fcell). The attached image shows the current functionality when...

  • Last modified date of a division file should not change when closing a division without editing in “XPP Pathfinder” in order to avoid confusion about whether any changes made or not

    Denise Reid
    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    The division shown in Picture 3.1 was Last Modified on 15 th Sep 2022, at 9:14 A M and later the same division was opened using the edit option and closed immediately without editing, however the Last Modified Date & Time has been changed (see Picture...

  • PathFinder: Bookmark your favourite locations for super-quick access

    Paul Montgomery
    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    The aim of this idea is to try and minimise the amount of scrolling that you have to do through a deep PathFinder structure. My proposed solution is to enhance the PathFinder interface so as to allow the user to Bookmark locations. The idea is that...

  • System and frill variable to determine whether in header row or body

    Mark Hutchinson
    • Under Community Review
    • 2 Comments
    >>> Copied from a reply in a different (but related idea). A system(%)/frill(!) variable that identifies whether the current row is in a header row or not (and therefore implies in a body row). This is not the same as the current variable that indicates...