Robert Graham Merkel writes:
> T.Pospisek's MailLists writes:
> > On 13 Jun 2000, Bill Gribble wrote:
> >
> > > Ben Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > When I last entered all of my transactions, which would have taken me
> > > > about an hour, I had just finished and then GNUcash had a crash. I can
> 't
> > > > remember if it was a seg fault or bus error or what, but I subsequentl
> y
> > > > had to re-enter everything I had just put in, by referring to the log
> > > > file.
> > >
> > > Ouch. I'm sorry :( I guess that's yet another case where "save early,
> > > save often" is your friend.
> >
> > What about having a:
> >
> > [] autosave ever [] minutes
> >
> > option? That is by default set to ... let's say 1 minute?
>
> That's a good idea, but it'll of course have to wait till 1.5.
>
> For implementing this, what about checking a "time since last
> autosave" every time a transaction is committed (language might be
> less than precise here, correct me if I'm wrong). If we're over the
> threshold, autosave. Comments, anyone?
I think auto-saving is really a GUI issue, not an engine one,
so it might be better to use the timeout mechanism of the gtk
event loop.
dave
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