Re: Auto-Saving implemented in r16227 (to become 2.1.5) - Feedback wanted

2007-07-07 Thread don Paolo Benvenuto
El mar, 03-07-2007 a las 21:28 -0700, Bill Wohler escribió: For me, saving takes about four seconds. It's not enough to cause hardship, but it would be a pain while I was actively entering transactions. So, I might imagine a configuration like (every 5 minutes or 10 transactions) and 1 minute

Re: Auto-Saving implemented in r16227 (to become 2.1.5) - Feedback wanted

2007-07-03 Thread Beth Leonard
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 02:35:13PM +0200, Christian Stimming wrote: Once you install r16627 or higher (which will become 2.1.5), auto-save will be activated every 3 minutes by default (counting from the first change of your data, i.e. when the * appears in the title bar). The very first

Re: Auto-Saving implemented in r16227 (to become 2.1.5) - Feedback wanted

2007-07-03 Thread Christian Stimming
Quoting Beth Leonard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does it save over your current working datafile? Or does it save a backup snapshot of the datafile that the next time you open gnucash after a crash gnucash will ask you if you want to open the backup or the real thing? In that sense: Yes, it does

Re: Auto-Saving implemented in r16227 (to become 2.1.5) - Feedback wanted

2007-07-03 Thread Bill Wohler
Beth Leonard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 02:35:13PM +0200, Christian Stimming wrote: Once you install r16627 or higher (which will become 2.1.5), auto-save will be activated every 3 minutes by default (counting from the first change of your data, i.e. when the *

Re: Auto-Saving implemented in r16227 (to become 2.1.5) - Feedback wanted

2007-07-03 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, Eric Ladner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kind of like how 'vi' does it too. Here's the rough logic... (on startup) if (alternate file exists) // something went wrong.. prompt user for option of reloading saved checkpoint if (user says yes) load checkpoint else

Re: Auto-Saving implemented in r16227 (to become 2.1.5) - Feedback wanted

2007-07-03 Thread Beth Leonard
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 01:50:30PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: Unfortunately the way GnuCash/QOF works makes this sort of autosave process very difficult to implement. QOF tries to make it's data look like a database, not a data file, so it really does abstract out these things. Gnucash does

Re: Auto-Saving implemented in r16227 (to become 2.1.5) - Feedback wanted

2007-07-03 Thread Derek Atkins
Unfortunately Save As repoints the current active datafile, so hooking into there would change your datafile out from under you. So, no, we can't use that functionality directly. -derek Quoting Beth Leonard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 01:50:30PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:

Re: Auto-Saving implemented in r16227 (to become 2.1.5) - Feedback wanted

2007-07-03 Thread keith
A little problem I have with this idea is that it takes several minutes to save my file. With 16K transactions, there is just too much data to grind out. I need to get my data into a database, I think. Of course I'm just using a 1.8 GHz P6. It would help if I had a modern computer. Bill

Re: Auto-Saving implemented in r16227 (to become 2.1.5) - Feedback wanted

2007-07-03 Thread Bill Wohler
keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A little problem I have with this idea is that it takes several minutes to save my file. With 16K transactions, there is just too much data to grind out. I need to get my data into a database, I think. Of course I'm just using a 1.8 GHz P6. It would help if

Re: Auto-Saving implemented in r16227 (to become 2.1.5) - Feedback wanted

2007-07-03 Thread Ian Lewis
I think either something as Wouter described, bury this in the settings and give ample explanation for what it does, or disabling it completly (at least in the stable versions) until it's really ready for normal use is needed. My gut feeling is to do the latter. While it's useful for some it

Re: Auto-Saving implemented in r16227 (to become 2.1.5) - Feedback wanted

2007-07-02 Thread Christian Stimming
Please make sure to *always* CC: to the list! Quoting don Paolo Benvenuto [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does auto-save save directly to the file or to a temporary file? Did you actually test this feature? My email specifically asked for feedback when *testing* this feature. As for backup files: Just as

Re: Auto-Saving implemented in r16227 (to become 2.1.5) - Feedback wanted

2007-07-02 Thread Nigel Titley
Christian Stimming wrote: Dear all, after years and years of being asked to implement an automatic saving of the data file (auto-save) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451889 (and http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107365 ) I eventually implemented this feature last week.

Auto-Saving implemented in r16227 (to become 2.1.5) - Feedback wanted

2007-07-01 Thread Christian Stimming
Dear all, after years and years of being asked to implement an automatic saving of the data file (auto-save) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451889 (and http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107365 ) I eventually implemented this feature last week. Once you install r16627 or