#194 Same file opened twice with the "File->Open..." dialog

[Sylvain Loiseau]

If I drag (the icon of) a file on the Alpha icon, and if this file is already open, Alpha does not open it a second time a bring the corresponding buffer on the foreground. The same thing occurs if I select an already opened file in the "File->Open Recent" list.

However, if I select a file already opened in the "File->Open..." dialog, it open a new buffer of that file whose name is suffixed with <2>.

At some point (I cannot determinate when exactly), the "Open Recent" list start working the same way: each time I select the same file in the list, it open a new buffer, incrementing the <n> suffix.</n>

Best,
Sylvain

[Bernard Desgraupes]

This is complex. All these technics ultimately invoke an aevt/odoc AppleEvent which has an option for either opening the same file or open a duplicate. The calling procs certainly do not have the same settings and this is the cause of the inconsistent behavior. I'll look into this.

[Bernard Desgraupes]

This is fixed. "File->Open..." dialog is now consistent with the other methods: if the file is already opened, Alpha brings it to front.
Changes committed to the repository (rev. 1575 (sourceforge.net)).