[scribus-dev] Issue#11772

[Craig Bradney]

> On 13 Nov 2015, at 18:08, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> 
> On 11/13/2015 10:39 AM, ibtisam al mabsali wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I think it's just not telling the open story 
>> editor about the new preferences.
>> 
>> Craig
>> 
>> Yes that what is I noticed, the preferences of SE are loaded during
>> build gui when scribus starting and that is why the new prefs applied
>> just after restart scribus.
>> 
>>> Whats your plan to implement this ? Could you describe it verbally
>>> before you submit a patch ?
>>> And BTW, thanks for offering! :)
>>> 
>>> /Kunda
>> 
>> I'm thinking to make SE loads its preferences when open SE dialog, so it
>> can get the new preferences.
>> 
> 
> I think maybe Preferences is not saving the settings until Scribus closes.
> I tried this experiment:
> 
> With no document open, I changed the SE font, "saved" the settings.
> I opened a doc, made a text frame, and opened SE, where SE showed the
> old font. SE found the old setting somewhere. AFAIK, there is no running
> SE function until you open it.
> 
> So the trick should be to get Preferences to save the setting when you
> click Ok, not waiting until Scribus closes.



I believe I have now fixed this.

For reference, Story Editor is created when Scribus starts. Its always there, its just hidden.

Craig