John Levon wrote:
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?
Well, subject to changes: "The file [document?] blah.lyx was already
open and has been changed. Do you want to abandon your changes and
reload the version on disk?" [Reload] [Cancel]
I think "reload" is a commonly understood term---and maybe clearer than
"revert". As for "cancel", I'm not sure what it should be. "Continue" is
potentially misleading, even with "editing" after it.
Richard
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