Re: [Rosegarden-user] Necessity of using File-New(document)?

[Silvan <dmm...@us...>]

On Friday 30 April 2004 10:27 am, William wrote:

> The "File" menu in the track editor has a "New" item for creating new
> documents. Is there anything wrong with not clicking this item and
> immediately starting to draw segments, enter notes, rests, etc, in the
> matrix and notation editors? If it is not necessary to use this menu item,
> why is it there?

So you can dump what you were working on and start over, I suppose.

It will become more useful when we have a full multi-document interface.  Much 
of the infrastructure for this is there already, but that feature won't be 
fully functional until after 1.0.

> Whenever I have tried clicking this menu item, it doesn't seem to make
> any real difference to the subsequent behaviour of RG.  Just after clicking
> the menu item, the track editor window re-draws itself, flashing briefly as
> it does so, but afterwards the window looks the same as before.

If you've already done something, it will ask whether you wish to save your 
pending work before starting over.  If you click File -> New from a blank 
document, it merely loads the default blank document (autoload.rg) again, 
which is why you see the behavior you describe.

(I have a new ISP now, BTW.)

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