existing files are overwritten without warning

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#6 existing files are overwritten without warning

Status: open-fixed

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Priority: 5

Updated: 2004-05-31

Created: 2004-05-23

Creator: Ralf Lehmann

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This is true for project files as well as for terrain files (I
haven't tested all available file types, though)...

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David Burnett - 2004-05-31

status: open --> open-fixed
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David Burnett - 2004-05-31

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Should be fixed now, checks for a existing file at file browser for terrain
file and project file and checks terrain file just before running.

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Ralf Lehmann - 2004-06-01

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It works. ;)

I'm afraid that this fix caused a problem, though: After
clicking "Yes" in the dialogue, the progress bar window
appears but loses its focus after a few seconds and the main
pG window becomes the active one which "hides" the
progress bar window. Not sure if this is just a Windows (tm)
problem.

Is there any way to make dialogues modal? I'm about to add
another focus related bug soon...

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Ralf Lehmann - 2004-06-01

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This happens right after choosing "Run", of course :)

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Nobody/Anonymous - 2004-06-01

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That's a weird one and yes a Windows one (well a non Mac one anyway)

The Progress window is not even created until after the JOptionPanel is
long gone and the result processed.

Modal progress dialogues are the root of all evil BTW, well after MDI but
I guess what you really mean is a progress window that stays on top.
I've just checked that in :-)

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Ralf Lehmann - 2004-06-01

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You were able to check in the sources? I wasn't even able to
access the CVS anonymously all day (via CVS client/web
interface). Bad gateway error or something...

Anyway, yes I'd prefer an always on-top version of the
progress window. ;)

I'm interested in the reasons for your opinions on MDI and
modal dialogues, though. ;)

Maybe we should have a developer forum for these and other
kinds of things...

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David Burnett - 2004-06-03

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Check out this website.
http://pixelcentric.net/x-shame/docs.html

Item 1 echoes my feelings about MDI.

Item 5 talks about not hijacking the application which modal
dialogues do.
I always hated the way they stop the window behind the
dialogue from updating, sometime picking up the image of an
application that was on top at the time the dialogue
appeared.
It made applications look amateur and sometimes you could
go back to the application to find a dialogue asking a question
that you needed to refer to the main window to anwser but
as it now looks like half a word document or whatever you
couldn't do anything about it.

another good rant about it is...

http://warpedvisions.org/article/34/towards-the-perfect-gui--
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