(Sorry IOhannes, missed the list on that one) Currently (at least on Mac OS X) Pd has no qualms about shutting down without question if the main window is closed, which seems a bit silly considering the proliferation of confirmation boxes elsewhere. I've lost quite a bit of work this way, accidentally using command-q (quit) rather than command-w (close window). I'm also in the questionable habit of using quit to bring up the save dialogue before quitting, which is fairly standard behavior in other applications.
That's not to mention that OS X usually has an Application/Window disconnect
- in that closing the windows of a program does not actually quit - so it is
especially unexpected on the Mac.
Update... I've also confirmed this is the behavior in Windows.
Cheers, Luke
On 4/10/06, zmoelnig@iem.at zmoelnig@iem.at wrote:
Zitat von adam armfield adamairmailed@yahoo.com:
yeah i've been finding this a bit of a chore too, i think only prompting if the window has been altered is a fair comprimise (and perhaps bringing up "do you want to save?" instead of do you want to close?)
this has been discussed thoroughly on this list: the final state (iirc) is, tht miller had no plans to change this behaviour back; he had good reasons for his arguments, which you can find by searching the archives.
asking for "save" rather than "really close" seems to be a good idea however.
also on my pretty please pd request list is a "define shortcut keys mode" - i prefer just being able to press ctl-1 for an object rather than ctl-shift-1 - don't want to start a flame war on the merits of either, thought having a preferences file for individual pd wranglers to choose would be a way to keep everyone happy
now this would be nice to have: this way you could override the reluctant closing with the enforced closing.
mfg.adr. IOhannes
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