#66 Info how to save from erlang prompt

[Anonymous]

E. g. smooth operations can be very time
consuming.
You click on such a operation, but the program
will not talk to you till the next decade.

As far as i understood Erlang, it should be
possible in principle to save the last
valid content of wings3D (needed for the undo
command) from the Erlang command shell.

This information should be available from
the help menu or (better), the Erlang command
shell itself should tell this information.

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

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I principle you are right about what can done in Erlang. But
as Wings is implemented using only on process it is not as
easy to do in practice.

I hope to make Smooth faster in future release.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Faster smoothing do not solve the basic problem:
Someong start a lengthly operation and loose it's content
(completely ?).

I sometimes teach architecture student about 3D modelling, -
- on real old and week SGI computers 8-( and for
them this is a widespread problem.

A other idea would to be more graceful to such users, would
be a
autosafe before every lengthly operation (e.g. if you try to
smooth
more than ?000 faces).

But till now, i did not find out, how to restore a autosaved
file
(if there is no filename yet).