Currently when you do an extended Find across a project and choose to replace text, it is not obvious that your changes aren't saved when you close the dialog box, which would be the expected bahavior.
It wasn't until I had uploaded all the files in the project and was about to close the project (I had already closed all of the tabs) when I was asked if I wanted to save the changed documents! I had to go through to whole upload process again to commit my changes!
This behavior should be much more transparent to the user--either by automatically saving changes to files that are not open in tabs or to have a check box on the find/replace in project dialog that offers to save changes automatically.
Chris
On 14. Nov 2004, at 3:57, Chris Messina wrote:
This behavior should be much more transparent to the user--either by automatically saving changes to files that are not open in tabs or to have a check box on the find/replace in project dialog that offers to save changes automatically.
It darkens modified files in the project outline, but this won't be visible if the groups are collapsed.
I don't like having the replace window save changed files -- what I could do is open all changed files as tabs if they were not already open. Though when the “in project” limitation of “find in project” is lifted, I'm not sure this will be nice (but it could be an option in the window).
Another solution might be to change the window title of projects from: “file — project” to “file — project (%d modified documents)”. This latter solution is what I like best myself, but do fear that the title becomes too long.
On 14. nov 2004, at 11:16, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 14. Nov 2004, at 3:57, Chris Messina wrote:
This behavior should be much more transparent to the user--either by automatically saving changes to files that are not open in tabs or to have a check box on the find/replace in project dialog that offers to save changes automatically.
Another solution might be to change the window title of projects from: “file — project” to “file — project (%d modified documents)”. This latter solution is what I like best myself, but do fear that the title becomes too long.
Another rather simple solution is a checkmark in the dialogue: Save files to disk after replace?
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