AutoSave or something like it.
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:46 pm
Hi All Devs,
For the second time now I am getting annoyed with the Livecode environment. I have closed Livecode and lost all that I have been working on by not taking notice of the Save prompt. This is because I look at many, many .rev/.livecode files and each time I close them it asks if I want to save them even though I only opened them without changing anything!! I have got so bored of the save prompt that it gets natural to ignore it - psychology 101 (pavlov's dog and all that!)
The problem comes in that I also forget the actual save at the end of a session.
There should be an automatic save of the current stack to a temp location (or possibly the last 10 stacks!), so that a recovery option is available. This should not be a difficult thing to implement for you guys - please.
Also, if I load a different live code file into the IDE, does the content of it get merged with what I might already have loaded? It 'looks' like it does, and therefore is confusing as to what is being saved if I press Ctrl/Cmd-S. Each file should be distinctly different in the App browser and should provide a * next to the name for unsaved stacks (possibly with a save icon next to the name as well!)
Most important from the above is the autosave of a temp recovery stack.
Cheers,
Dave
For the second time now I am getting annoyed with the Livecode environment. I have closed Livecode and lost all that I have been working on by not taking notice of the Save prompt. This is because I look at many, many .rev/.livecode files and each time I close them it asks if I want to save them even though I only opened them without changing anything!! I have got so bored of the save prompt that it gets natural to ignore it - psychology 101 (pavlov's dog and all that!)
The problem comes in that I also forget the actual save at the end of a session.
There should be an automatic save of the current stack to a temp location (or possibly the last 10 stacks!), so that a recovery option is available. This should not be a difficult thing to implement for you guys - please.
Also, if I load a different live code file into the IDE, does the content of it get merged with what I might already have loaded? It 'looks' like it does, and therefore is confusing as to what is being saved if I press Ctrl/Cmd-S. Each file should be distinctly different in the App browser and should provide a * next to the name for unsaved stacks (possibly with a save icon next to the name as well!)
Most important from the above is the autosave of a temp recovery stack.
Cheers,
Dave