With all due respect, you're mistaken. The Windows standard is to exit without saving when the "x" is clicked. Clicking "Apply" saves any changes without exiting the dialog and clicking "Save" saves the data and exits. Legacy also doesn't always make standard use of the "Apply" button, although I can't remember off-hand which dialog gave me trouble and don't have time at the moment to research it.
Bob -----Original Message----- From: Brian/Support [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 12:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Using "x" to exit/cancel - bug? 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 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
