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 it

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

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

Re: How to indicate window needs saving

2008-03-22 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,

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,

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 following 3

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

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 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 been

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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