Opening doc when using XML editor causes infinite looped switching between docs

[Martin Andersen]

Using Inkscape 0.46 on Windows
To reproduce:
1. Open Inkscape
2. Draw something, like a rectangle
3. With it selected, open the XML editor, and select an attribute
4. Now go to open, select any SVG file.
5. When it tries to open it, the XML editor somehow causes a loop switching between the new window and the previous one where the attribute is from. The only fix is to force-quit it via Task Manager.

[sas (sas-sas)]

I can reproduce this in 0.46, but it appears to be fixed in the main branch (testing with revision 18189 on Windows XP).

[Marcin Floryan (mfloryan)]

Yes, confirmed. In 0.46 the open XML editor does not allow the other window to open / get focus until the first document is closed. In the SVN version the XML editor is modless and correctly switches context between two open documents. Supposed this could be fixed in 0.46 then unless this required too many changes in which case it could be sensible to close XML editor on new file open in 0.46

[vdubya (van-woods)]

Also occurs in 0.46 if "text and font" dialog is open when opening another document.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Not reproduced with Inkscape 0.48 (floating XML Editor) and current trunk (r12170 - new dockable XML Editor) on OS X 10.7.

Can anyone reproduce this with current stable or trunk builds?

(bug status - 'Confirmed', milestone '0.46.1' - combined with comment #2 unfortunately is unclear to me: was the milestone set to have a fix from trunk at the time backported to the 0.46 release branch for 0.46.1, and the report can be considered obsolete (or 'Fix Released' by now? I can't revert the bug status to 'Incomplete' either - getting an error message from launchpad.net …)

[Qantas94Heavy (qantas94heavy)]

As I can't reproduce this and nobody has reproduced this for a long time, I'll close this bug as no longer being relevant.