Re: [Fwbuilder-discussion] constructive critism?

[Mike W. <mik...@co...>]

On Thursday 21 April 2005 17:48, Vadim Kurland wrote:
> there is no cancel button, I know. I do not like the idea of having any
> buttons in that dialog at all. When I have many objects and need to
> make changes, I jump from object to object a lot and having to click
> Apply or OK is annoying. Hence auto-save feature. But I'd rather make
> auto-saving behavior default and get rid of all the buttons. =A0The idea
> was to edit objects in way similar to those "small" editors used to
> edit properties of text and other various things in many programs by
> Microsoft and Apple. I do not know proper name for this widget, for
> example it is a small non-modal dialog that you use to edit paragraph,
> text, font properties in Word. Changes are immediate so there is no
> "Apply" or "OK" button.

That's a very "Apple" way of working, as I've recently found out.
A way out of "bugger, I didn't want to do that, but I can't remember exactl=
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what it was" option would be nice though :)
Personally, I prefer the OK/Cancel method. Using either method you have to=
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click once to save/close, but the latter gives the option to just close.
How about just making apply close the window too, for the short term?

> execute bit should not do this, perhaps Samba adds "w" bit as well ? I
> just ran this little test:

hmm, it works now...
I tried it with 2.0.2 originally, and it didn't work. Now with 2.0.6 it=20
does....
Strange, but it works, so I'm happy :)

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