There are many places in Legacy where an edit or change is saved even if you click Cancel before you exit the page on which you made the changes.
But, more to the point: Legacy is based on Access; Access is an Microsoft Office program; Microsoft Office programs ALWAYS ask if you want to save your changes whenever you click on the "x". That includes changes to any cells, columns, rows, etc. CE ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian/Support<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 9:54 PM 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]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com<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
