I would humbly suggest that this dialog should, in order of ease-to-implement
a) display the size of the file, b) let the user know why they might not wish to proceed, and c) give some indication of how much memory they should probably have in order to expect reasonable performance. Jake On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Robby Findler <[email protected] > wrote: > Sure! > > Robby > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:14 AM, John Clements > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I accidentally opened a sound file in DrRacket today; cue six minutes of > thrashing and computer unhappiness. Would it be okay if I added a > second-check dialog to DrRacket that checked the size of a file before > opening it, and asked for confirmation before opening files larger than, > say, 5MB? > > > > John > > > > > > _________________________________________________ > > For list-related administrative tasks: > > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev > > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev -- A warb degombs the brangy. Your gitch zanks and leils the warb.
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