I am evaluating BC3 at the moment and so far it has met all my somewhat demanding functional requirements. I love having file and folder compare, folder sync and text editing in the same program with scripting and command line fully implemented. But some of your UI design choices seem quite bizarre!
In particular, I can execute the command line 'BCompare /edit' multiple times and get multiple (empty) text editing tabs in the same BC instance. I can then drag-and-drop different files onto each tab to get a multi-tab text editing session. Trouble is this seems to be the ONLY way of creating multiple text editing tabs. Text editing is not a session type on the new session menu (why not?), nor is it in the left-hand button column on the 'open session' tab. There does not appear to be anywhere on the BC window where you can drop a file to get it to open in a new tab - it always replaces the content of an existing tab, keeping it text edit if the current tab is a text edit, otherwise changing the current tab to text compare with an empty right side.
Am I missing some design subtlety here? If not, why not simply make text editing a session type? It would also be good if dropping a file on the menu bar or title bar (or an empty area of the tab bar if it is showing) would create a new tab rather than overwriting the current tab.
In particular, I can execute the command line 'BCompare /edit' multiple times and get multiple (empty) text editing tabs in the same BC instance. I can then drag-and-drop different files onto each tab to get a multi-tab text editing session. Trouble is this seems to be the ONLY way of creating multiple text editing tabs. Text editing is not a session type on the new session menu (why not?), nor is it in the left-hand button column on the 'open session' tab. There does not appear to be anywhere on the BC window where you can drop a file to get it to open in a new tab - it always replaces the content of an existing tab, keeping it text edit if the current tab is a text edit, otherwise changing the current tab to text compare with an empty right side.
Am I missing some design subtlety here? If not, why not simply make text editing a session type? It would also be good if dropping a file on the menu bar or title bar (or an empty area of the tab bar if it is showing) would create a new tab rather than overwriting the current tab.
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