WIBN: Delayed Close
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Today's "wouldn't it be nice" is brought to you by Outlook. Wouldn't it be nice if, when you clicked the "X" on a application, it minimized for 30 seconds (to, say, the area next to the system tray) and then closed, giving you the opportunity to cancel the close?
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Today's "wouldn't it be nice" is brought to you by Outlook. Wouldn't it be nice if, when you clicked the "X" on a application, it minimized for 30 seconds (to, say, the area next to the system tray) and then closed, giving you the opportunity to cancel the close?
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Your proposal is unnecessarily complicated. "Exit program?" messages are more than enough.
Eduardo León
You are right but it would be even better if, after you click OK on the message, it waited 30secs and popped up another dialog "Are you sure now?". :)
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Your proposal is unnecessarily complicated. "Exit program?" messages are more than enough.
Eduardo León
Except you almost never want to go through that extra step, and forcing it each time would be cumbersome. The delay mechanism prevents the user from having to click that dialog, but it also gives them an opportunity to change their mind in the event they didn't mean to click close (like what just happened to me with Outlook). Granted, it's usually never a big deal, but I would welcome such a feature.
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Today's "wouldn't it be nice" is brought to you by Outlook. Wouldn't it be nice if, when you clicked the "X" on a application, it minimized for 30 seconds (to, say, the area next to the system tray) and then closed, giving you the opportunity to cancel the close?
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You are right but it would be even better if, after you click OK on the message, it waited 30secs and popped up another dialog "Are you sure now?". :)
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Clippy: Are you sure now? User: [states something incomprehensible]. Clippy: Good! *30 seconds elapse* Clippy: Are you sure now? ...
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Clippy: Are you sure now? User: [states something incomprehensible]. Clippy: Good! *30 seconds elapse* Clippy: Are you sure now? ...
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No, just a PITA. When I say close I mean close, and make it snappy.
Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash
Let me guess, you also "don't have no need for no stinkin' recycle bin!"
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Let me guess, you also "don't have no need for no stinkin' recycle bin!"
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Today's "wouldn't it be nice" is brought to you by Outlook. Wouldn't it be nice if, when you clicked the "X" on a application, it minimized for 30 seconds (to, say, the area next to the system tray) and then closed, giving you the opportunity to cancel the close?
Or alternatively you could put it in a suspended state where it would not consume any resources but could be activated again very quickly at the point you left it. Just my 2 sense
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Or alternatively you could put it in a suspended state where it would not consume any resources but could be activated again very quickly at the point you left it. Just my 2 sense
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Yeah, that was another idea I came up with a while back. Both would be nifty features. However, the suspended state may require hard drive space (to sort of hybernate the application) and may slow things down a bit. Opening it again would also take a while, so it would perhaps not even be worthwhile to create that suspended state.
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aspdotnetdev wrote:
stinkin' recycle bin!
I wondered what that smell was. :wtf:
Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash
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Or alternatively you could put it in a suspended state where it would not consume any resources but could be activated again very quickly at the point you left it. Just my 2 sense
Fishmore & Dolittle - Retirement Planning & Consultants http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[^] My Site
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Yeah, that was another idea I came up with a while back. Both would be nifty features. However, the suspended state may require hard drive space (to sort of hybernate the application) and may slow things down a bit. Opening it again would also take a while, so it would perhaps not even be worthwhile to create that suspended state.
aspdotnetdev wrote:
However, the suspended state may require hard drive space (to sort of hybernate the application)
I don't see that as an issue when a 2TB drive is under $100 USD
aspdotnetdev wrote:
may slow things down a bit.
Disk swapping is fairly fast and I reckon the app's particulars could be swapped in and out as needed. I don't think it would take as long as starting up the app loading in the last project (or whatever it takes to get back to where you were) and doing whatever else is involved.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
That's a good idea for a Squid!
NEVER call a Marine a Squid. :) We are the proud, the few, etc.. There's a reason there's so few of us the one's that aren't dead are crazy. :)
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Dalek Dave wrote:
That's a good idea for a Squid!
NEVER call a Marine a Squid. :) We are the proud, the few, etc.. There's a reason there's so few of us the one's that aren't dead are crazy. :)
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aspdotnetdev wrote:
However, the suspended state may require hard drive space (to sort of hybernate the application)
I don't see that as an issue when a 2TB drive is under $100 USD
aspdotnetdev wrote:
may slow things down a bit.
Disk swapping is fairly fast and I reckon the app's particulars could be swapped in and out as needed. I don't think it would take as long as starting up the app loading in the last project (or whatever it takes to get back to where you were) and doing whatever else is involved.
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I was thinking more that the slowness of the hard drive would be the issue rather than the space taken up. Having 2GB of RAM get stored to the hard drive could take a good amount of time, especially if the user just wants to close. But, yeah, it could be a useful feature so the user could avoid having to manually get the application back in the same state it was before quitting.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
My apologies, Cabbagehead!
That's Jarhead to you kind sir and an OohRa.
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Except you almost never want to go through that extra step, and forcing it each time would be cumbersome. The delay mechanism prevents the user from having to click that dialog, but it also gives them an opportunity to change their mind in the event they didn't mean to click close (like what just happened to me with Outlook). Granted, it's usually never a big deal, but I would welcome such a feature.
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You are right but it would be even better if, after you click OK on the message, it waited 30secs and popped up another dialog "Are you sure now?". :)
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”