Saving changes

[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 actually made or not). This is inconsistent with editing the Equipment
> tab or saving photos or editing events on the dive graph such as removing
> the gas change event at the beginning of the dive.

True. Changes on the profile and changes in the Notes / Equipment are
treated differently in a way...

> 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 or reject
those changes. But they are NOT written to disk until you manually save or
quit Subsurface.

> Many times I go into a dive to grab the GPS location to add to another dive
> at the same location. As soon as I click in the field to grab the
> coordinates, I then need to click Cancel to exit that dive even though I
> have not edited anything.

I agree, we could be smarter and more consistent about when we show the
Save/Cancel buttons.

I don't think we'll do that for 4.2, but we should look into this
afterwards.

I'll make my usual request - can you file a ticket?

thanks

/D