On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:14:56AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > John Levon wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:24:54PM +0100, Stephen Cornell wrote: > > > >>I checked to see how other programs behave in this context, and Word, > >>Pages, and NeoOffice simply switched to the already-open (and > >>possibly edited) document without comment. Maybe that's the correct > >>behaviour? You can always close it without saving if you want to > >>revert to an older version. > >> > >Also fine (and, temptingly, less code). > > > I'll make my previous suggestion again: Switch to the open document, but > then (if the document is dirty) issue the "Do you want to revert?" > message. A bit more code, but I think it could be confusing to switch to > a document that wasn't the same as the one on disk that you thought you > were opening.
What's the exact wording of your message box? john