John Darrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 09:35:53AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > You know, for output in PSPPIRE, the "correct" thing to do is > probably to not write it anywhere, by default, until the user > saves it explicitly with File|Save (and we'd want to prompt them > if they tried to exit without saving). That's closer to what > every other GUI program does, and it would be the same behavior > in Unix and Windows. > > I agree. As I'm sure you'll remember, the current way that the gui > displays its output is a quick and dirty hack re-using as much as > possible of the pre-existing output subsystem.
Definitely. This particular wart is just the one that has received the most attention on pspp-dev lately, it's certainly not the only or even the biggest. -- "...I've forgotten where I was going with this, but you can bet it was scathing." --DesiredUsername _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
