I think I will add in some kind of rudimentary locking capability on a
per-project basis, but in 1.1. It won't be perfect but it will stop the
most common problems likely to occur.
And I'll make an extra dialog for the case when Analysis starts up without
a project (again 1.1).
Wayne
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Jeremy Craven wrote:
> Rasmus Fogh wrote:
> > Dear Brian,
> >
> > Locking the files would not be that easy to set up. In version 1.1 we can
> > have several Project.xml all pointing to the same set of data. This would
> > make sense if e.g. you were working on different constraint lists and
> >
> >
> Forget I asked this one. I am quite happy that people just have to be
> careful in multiuser situations if it is going to be complicated.
>
> > Rasmu
> >>> prompting. What do people think?
> >>>
> >> I was happy with the way things are but agree that a dialog that offered a
> >> choice between "new project"/"open project"/"open spectra" would be a
> >> new-user friendly feature. However, what about when you just want to run
> >> the analysis GUI to e.g. do an update? If this gets in and user profiles
> >> come along, please could we have the option to have it not appear?
> >>
> >>
> I think someone doing an update has got far enough along to know what to
> do (probably..) and can cope with pressing one cancel button. (But also
> a "do not ask me again" button would be OK if user profiles do ever exist).
>
> If you are opening up analysis just to open spectra (which I agree is a
> very important task to make easy) then typing in a bogus project name is
> a very minor chore (or just pressing a cancel button).
>
> I had not spotted the "Open Spectra" thing, but it still asks you if you
> want to save the project at the end of the session so I think that is a
> bit mysterious given you never asked to start a new project in the first
> place (and all your menu options presumably unfreeze themselves after
> the first "open spectra".).
>
> I am trying to think of things that make the brand new user feel at
> home. Millions of greyed out options in a piece of software immediately
> makes me feel intimidated that I have got to learn a lot to get started
> in a program.
>
> Jeremy
>
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