Re: Two or more Xys open

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Robert wrote:

> But what might be
> fruitful to do would be to open the two different files in both
> iterations, and
>
> perform the COMP (actually, the FD/FM) in both iterations, *with this
> difference*: Xy1 would focus on Document1, while Xy2 would focus on
> Document2.
>
> Then, if you perform a simultaneous compare in both iterations, they will both
> stop in the same spot, except that one iteration will show Document1,
> while the
>
> other iteration will display Document2 -- you can see right away what the
> actual difference is!


That's a brilliant idea!

>  If you want to get a
> barebones sense of what GoXy can do, download it and skim Go.TXT:
>  http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/Go.ZIP


Okay, I looked at it. The text is oriented to WordPerfect--I suppose that
the same stuff applies for GoXy?



> > I don't see how the XPL
> > code in one Xy could "know about" what's going on in another Xy iteration.
>
> It can't. It doesn't. But when the various iterations are synchronized, i.e.
> identical, what you do in one session applies equally in any other.


Right.

> That's why
> DUO works. And it does work -- like magic!


But the magic is not available yet, right?



Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx