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- Subject: Re(2): Not Displaying Save Dialog
- Sent: 9/17/96 6:45 PM
- Received: 9/17/96 6:45 PM
- From: sfroment@odyssee.net (Serge Froment)
- Reply-To: ODF-Interest@CILabs.ORG
- To: OpenDoc Development Framework Discussion List
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- >:>>If a user opens a document with read/write permission and then closes it
- >:>>without modifing it, a dialog opens asking to save the document. How do
- >:>>I prevent the dialog from coming up.
- >:>
- >:>This shouldn't happen normally. However, there are occasions that I know of
- >:>when this will happen. It occurs when OpenDoc must update some information
- >:>about the document in order to sync it with the file system (updating its
- >:>name, for example). This marks the document as dirty and that's why you
- >:>see the save dialog.
- >:
- >:This also happens when the user scrolls the document. Try this with
- >:ODFDraw: open an ODFDraw document, scroll it, and then close it. The user
- >:thinks he made no modification, but OpenDoc thinks otherwise.
- >
- >Perhaps ODFDraw externalizes some description related to scrolling. In
- >this case it is ODFDraw that thinks otherwise. OpenDoc must honor parts'
- >ideas about when content is changed, because OpenDoc cannot know about
- >all kinds of content.
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- Can someone from the ODF team comment on this?
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- Serge