On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:54:23 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:

> On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 22:22:34 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:

>> The reason for this is that those 'values' do not get saved until
>> we 'submit' the form by pressing either the "Send Now" button or
>> the "Save to Outbox" button.

> Yes, that's what I assumed.

> But those fields seem to be saved and restored when I am doing an
> external edit of a reply? How is this different?

Not if you changed them before hitting the "external editor" button.

When we return from the external editor. Those values will be back to
what they were before making the changes.

> And note that the "body of message" field DOES get saved as TEXTAREA.TMP
> when the external editor is called. Naturally this must occur for the
> text to be passed to the ext-editor.

Correct.

The 'body' is saved to textarea.tmp as soon as we hit
the "external editor" button.

> Couldn't the other fields also be saved to a temporary file, say
> HEADERS.TMP, and reloaded on return from the external editor?

*If* I get quite a few requests for this 'feature'...... ;-)

>> key words.... 'at this time'. ;-)

> I don't know how you manage to fit in a home life, Glenn <g>

Arachne development IS my 'home life'.

And I ***LOVE*** it hat way.  :)))

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