How to indicate window needs saving

2008-03-20 Thread Bill Vlahos
The Mac allows visual feedback to the user that a window needs to be saved by changing the red (left most) icon with a dark dot in it. I don't know if Windows or Linux do the same thing. How do I give this indication to the user? Is there a property in Rev to do this? Bill Vlahos

Re: How to indicate window needs saving

2008-03-20 Thread Ian Wood
Trevor DeVore was working on an external for OS X, it can't be done internally. Ian On 20 Mar 2008, at 14:12, Bill Vlahos wrote: The Mac allows visual feedback to the user that a window needs to be saved by changing the red (left most) icon with a dark dot in it. I don't know if Windows o

Re: How to indicate window needs saving

2008-03-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Bill- > The Mac allows visual feedback to the user that a window needs to be > saved by changing the red (left most) icon with a dark dot in it. I don't > know if Windows or Linux do the same thing. > > How do I give this indication to the user? Is there a property in Rev to > do this? I've

Re: How to indicate window needs saving

2008-03-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: The Mac allows visual feedback to the user that a window needs to be saved by changing the red (left most) icon with a dark dot in it. I don't know if Windows or Linux do the same thing. How do I give this indication to the user? Is there a property in Rev to do this?

Re: How to indicate window needs saving

2008-03-20 Thread mfstuart
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Re: How to indicate window needs saving

2008-03-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
mfstuart wrote: > Richard Gaskin wrote: >> BTW: What does the Win HIG recommend for indicating unsaved changes? > > Did a google search with "windows hig". Didn't find anything relevant. > > But what I do in an edit-record type form, (built in another language > for Windows) is place the followin

Re: How to indicate window needs saving

2008-03-21 Thread Bill Vlahos
Even if Windows doesn't have any standard HIG for this, the Mac does. It is unfortunate that Rev doesn't have a way to to indicate it on the Mac. It sounds like even AppleScript won't help. Bill On Mar 21, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Ken and I talked about this last night, hunti

Re: How to indicate window needs saving

2008-03-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bill Vlahos wrote: Even if Windows doesn't have any standard HIG for this, the Mac does. It is unfortunate that Rev doesn't have a way to to indicate it on the Mac. True, it would be helpful. I'd toss a couple votes at it -- what's the RQQC #? -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJour

Re: How to indicate window needs saving

2008-03-24 Thread Paul Looney
Bill, I use a small (15 pixel) square button in the upper right corner of the window. A round button would work, too - and probably look better on OS X. Green means the window is uptodate and does not need saving. Yellow means there are unsaved changes (clicking on the button when Yellow w

Re: How to indicate window needs saving

2008-03-25 Thread Bill Vlahos
I just created the enhancement request 6213. http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=6213 I requested both specifically to support this on the Mac (where Apple has interface guidelines) but also a generalized standard way in Rev to mark a stack as needing to be saved. This would be

Re: How to indicate window needs saving

2008-03-26 Thread Len Morgan
It would be nice if this could be under programmer control. I have an app that can have changes made to it that DON'T constitute a "change." For example, if you get a record from the database to display it, it changes the contents of the fields on the screen from what they were before but if

Re: How to indicate window needs saving

2008-03-26 Thread Bill Vlahos
Len, Yes. I think what you suggest makes sense and would encourage you to add it to the request. Bill On Wednesday, March 26, 2008, at 07:45AM, "Len Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It would be nice if this could be under programmer control. I have an >app that can have changes made to i