Re: Saving changes

2014-07-02 Thread Rick Walsh
On 3 Jul 2014 04:00, "Dirk Hohndel" wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 08:57:35AM -0700, Richard DePas wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Robert Helling wrote: > > > > > > > > To get rid of any confusion we might rename the button to “Commit changes > > > to dive list”. Then nobody thinks

Re: Saving changes

2014-07-02 Thread Dirk Hohndel
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 10:02:39PM +0300, "Paul-Erik Törrönen" wrote: > > Or possibly a pop up when the entire tab loses focus since everything > > shifts down when the Save/Cancel bar is displayed. > > Which frankly speaking is annoying, since if you try to click on a > specific location on the t

Re: Saving changes

2014-07-02 Thread Paul-Erik Törrönen
> Or possibly a pop up when the entire tab loses focus since everything > shifts down when the Save/Cancel bar is displayed. Which frankly speaking is annoying, since if you try to click on a specific location on the tab (like the tag-field), then you actually do not have the specific item under y

Re: Re: Saving changes

2014-07-02 Thread Richard DePas
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Willem Ferguson < willemfergu...@zoology.up.ac.za> wrote: > > The issue is that the Save/Cancel buttons come up purely by only > focusing on the dive notes tab. I have come to live with it, even though it > is inconvenient. But the optimal solution would be for the

Fwd: Re: Saving changes

2014-07-02 Thread Willem Ferguson
Original Message Subject:Re: Saving changes Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 17:59:51 +0200 From: Willem Ferguson Reply-To: willemfergu...@zoology.up.ac.za Organization: University of Pretoria To: Robert Helling On 02/07/2014 17:39, Robert Helling wrote

Re: Saving changes

2014-07-02 Thread Dirk Hohndel
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 08:57:35AM -0700, Richard DePas wrote: > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Robert Helling wrote: > > > > > To get rid of any confusion we might rename the button to “Commit changes > > to dive list”. Then nobody thinks anything is written to disk. > > > > What do you think?

Re: Saving changes

2014-07-02 Thread Richard DePas
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Robert Helling wrote: > > To get rid of any confusion we might rename the button to “Commit changes > to dive list”. Then nobody thinks anything is written to disk. > > What do you think? > > Would a non-programmer really understand the difference between "Commit c

Re: Saving changes

2014-07-02 Thread Robert Helling
On 02.07.2014, at 16:23, Dirk Hohndel wrote: Hi, > I agree, we could be smarter and more consistent about when we show the > Save/Cancel buttons. I only see a small problem: The buttons (cancel, save) are there for edits of information of a single dive (what you do in the tabs) while actions

Re: Saving changes

2014-07-02 Thread Davide DB
2014-07-02 16:32 GMT+02:00 Richard DePas : > Ticket #588 created. >> > +1 on this. -- Davide ___ subsurface mailing list subsurface@hohndel.org http://lists.hohndel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface

Re: Saving changes

2014-07-02 Thread Richard DePas
> > > Personally I prefer to be prompted to save changes on exit or manually > > click the File -> Save option as it seems to be in most commercially > > offered programs. > > Careful. There are two levels of "Save changes" involved. > When you modify a dive it asks you whether you want to accept o

Re: Saving changes

2014-07-02 Thread Dirk Hohndel
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 05:25:35AM -0700, Richard DePas wrote: > One thing I have noticed if changes to a dive are saved differently > depending on what one is doing. If a dive is edited on the Dive Notes tab, > a Save/Cancel bar opens as soon as a field is clicked in (whether a change > is actuall

Saving changes

2014-07-02 Thread Richard DePas
One thing I have noticed if changes to a dive are saved differently depending on what one is doing. If a dive is edited on the Dive Notes tab, a Save/Cancel bar opens as soon as a field is clicked in (whether a change is actually made or not). This is inconsistent with editing the Equipment tab or