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Hello, On point (1), the three main menu items you can select are "new project", "open project" and "open spectra". The latter was meant as a way of looking at spectra without having to actually explicitly create a project (one is created for you automatically behind your back). I'm not sure how many people actually use that option so I wonder if we can always insist that people create a project. And I'm also not sure what the split between "new project" / "open project" is. We could perhaps have a dialog pop up where it gives you the option of doing one or the other (or also "open spectra" if we keep that). I guess that might help novices, although with so few menu choices not greyed out I would have hoped it wouldn't be that hard to have figured these out without additional prompting. What do people think? On point (2) you can have multiple versions of Analysis running. There is no locking of files. Some day we might have a database-backed version of Analysis where this kind of functionality is all built in. For now Analysis is de facto single user (so if two users, or one user with two sessions, are working on the same files at the same time then that is going to cause trouble). I agree about mentioning the project in the save dialog, that will happen (perhaps not until the 1.1 release though, and assuming I don't forget!). Wayne On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Jeremy Craven wrote: > A couple of little suggestions: > > 1) When you start up analysis with no project then virtually everything > in greyed out, and you have to open a project to get anything to work > (including changing web browser ...). Would it be better that if you > fire up analysis with no project it prompts you with a helpful window > saying you almost certainly need to open a new project (even if you just > want to have a quick look at a spectrum), and giving you the option to > do it there, (or letting you go to the "open project" window if your > intention is to open a project via the GUI. **This would help the new user** > > 2) I have ended up with more than one copy of analysis running on my > screen. (Can this cause any problems?? As a side Q: Is there any lock > put on a project when it is open ? Could another user open it at the > same time and cause havoc ?). They were for two different projects. When > you quit analysis and it asks you if you want to save the project it > would be helpful to be told the name of the project file that it is > about to save, so that you do not end up quitting and saving (or not!) > the wrong project. > > Regards > > Jeremy > > > > -- > ********************************************************************************* > > Dr C. Jeremy Craven > Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology > University of Sheffield, > Firth Court, Western Bank > S10 2TN Sheffield UK > > e-mail: [log in to unmask] > http://www.nmr.group.shef.ac.uk/CJC.html > > Phone: x24323 > >From outside Sheffield: 0114 222 4323 > >From outside UK: +44 114 2224323 > Fax: 0114 272 2800 > > ********************************************************************************* >