Hi,
On point one, I quite often use analysis simply for overlaying spectra
without wanting to create a new project so I'd prefer not to go through
the extra steps of creating a new project.
On point 2. Would it not be wise to employ something simple like a .lock
file to allow only one version of analysis to open a project in
read/write mode at any one time?
Andy
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 11:08 +0100, Wayne Boucher wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >
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