A more correct interpretation, and this is throughout Windows not just in Legacy, is that the x means apply changes and exit. In other words using x is just like using Save.
Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. On 21/07/2011 11:09 PM, Paula Ryburn wrote: > In testing using "est" in dates (where "est" is not in the valid list in > Help), > I discovered a follow-up to an old thread (Nov 2010) about the modified date. > > The problem noted was that if you clicked the "x" to get out of the Edit > Indiv. > screen, the modified date was updated. The (imo blunt) reply was "of course > it > did... click cancel..." - end of thread. > > However, what I noticed was that if you entered data and decide not to save it > and click "x" to get out, not only is the modified date updated, but the new > data is also saved. I don't think that is the way it should be. > > IMO, clicking the "x" to get out of something (escape out of something) is > pretty standard that you do NOT want it saved. The converse argument could > be "If I'd wanted to save it, I would've clicked "Save." " > > I think the program should notice whether or not changes were made, then (a) > if > no changes, don't update modified date, and (b) if changes were made, ask if > they want to save them (and update modified date if they do). > > Sherry or Brian, what do you think? What was the intent in putting the "x" > there instead of forcing a conscious choice of what to do upon exiting? Am I > so > far off base? > > Thanks, > --Paula in Texas > Researching: Adair Baker Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough > Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd > Gates > Goodale Gordon Gump Harbaugh Hopkins Hughes Jones Koyle Laswell McDonald > Misner > Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sullivan Williams > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on > our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
