Saving changes

Rick Walsh rickmwalsh at gmail.com
Wed Jul 2 12:17:22 PDT 2014


On 3 Jul 2014 04:00, "Dirk Hohndel" <dirk at hohndel.org> 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 <helling at atdotde.de>
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
> > changes to dive list" and "Save to disk"?  It may be understood the dive
> > lists are on disk since the log file being opened is from disk.
>
> I'd change it to "Accept" and "Revert"

What if there were only a "Revert" (or undo) button, with accept being
assumed otherwise once focus is lost. That saves us a click every edit -
often more because I forget about it and get the popup reminding me.

>
> > Would it just make sense to save changes to dive lists automatically
when
> > changes are made and the dive is deselected - then prompt the user to
save
> > changes on exit of the program. Which would save them to disk as it does
> > now with other changes?
>
> No, I really want the two layers of "Accept" and then "Save". I often
> download my dives and start editing and adding things. If I mess something
> up I just say "Cancel" (well, now maybe "Revert") and start again on the
> last dive, without having to re-download everything.
>
> > Guess what I am stating is, can the edits in the dive list be automatic
> > rather than manually popping open the Save/Cancel when a field is
clicked
> > on?
>
> See above.
>
> /D
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