gmw1@CUNIXD.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Gabe M Wiener) (03/22/89)
Hats off to the authors of MockWrite! I was online with Dialog Information Services doing research and copying all my citations into MockWrite. Well, when I went to print, I got some sort of a system error resulting in a bomb (I don't remember the ID #). Anyway, it hit me then and there that I had not saved the file. So there it flashed before me: half an hour of dialog searches and $12 down the drain. However, when I clicked "Restart" from the bomb dialog, MockWrite came to the foreground and said: "Save changes before closing?" I don't believe it. I've never seen a DA do that before. Hats off to MockWrite! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-\******/=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Gabe Wiener -- Columbia University \****/ \**/ "At times it is wiser to remain INTERNET: gmw1@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu \/ silent and be considered a fool BITNET: gmw1@cunixc /\ than to speak and remove all COMPUSERVE: 72355,1226 /**\ doubt." WUI: 650-117-9118 /****\ - Shaw =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-/******\=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Raines.Cohen@f444.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Raines Cohen) (03/23/89)
Re: MockWrite and "save changes after closing" Acta, MiniWriter, and other DA's do it now. Don't thank MockWrite, thank the Shutdown Manager and recent Systems that include it. -- Raines Cohen SYSOP, BMUG BBS -- INTERNET: bmug!User.Name@apple.COM UUCP: apple!bmug!User.Name
svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol) (03/27/89)
In article <97.242B951E@bmug.FIDONET.ORG>, Raines.Cohen@f444.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Raines Cohen) writes: > > > Re: MockWrite and "save changes after closing" > > Acta, MiniWriter, and other DA's do it now. Don't thank MockWrite, thank the Shutdown Manager and recent Systems that include it. > Sorry Raines, but a DA's 'ability' to alert the user that he will lose data on a close ('Do you wish to Save...') has NOTHING to do with the system. A DA must be programmed specifically to support something called the (yes, really) Goodbye Kiss. When a DA is closed by either the user (click in close box) or by the system (application closing or shutdown) then the DA gets this 'kiss' from the system - if the DA recognizes it, then it SHOULD do the proper clearnup/shutdown - it it doesn't know about the kiss, bye bye data... -- +--------------------------------------------------+ Leonard Rosenthol | GEnie : MACgician Lazerware, inc. | MacNet: MACgician UUCP: svc@well.UUCP | ALink : D0025