Visual indicators aside, I don't see any purpose in having two members with the same name in the same cast. When I duplicate a file in the OS file manager, the duplocate is called "Copy of," and that makes much more sense to me.
S. At 02:38 PM 8/15/04 -0700, you wrote: >At 10:10 AM +0200 8/15/04, you wrote: >>At 17:32 Uhr -0700 14.08.2004, Buzz Kettles wrote: >>>My guess is that you thought you did cmd-S (to save) when actually did cmd-D >>>(duplicate) >>> >>>................................. >>> >>>At least that's what makes the most sense to me (who has also noticed this >>>situation & gotten into some massively confusion because of the 2 ALMOST identical >>>members. >>>(for instance, putting changes into the inactive one can be real annoying while >>>debugging ... >>> >>>none of my changes 'took'! :) >> >>I was also bitten by that some times. >>But it shouldn't be too hard to add some kind of 'feedback', when duplicating a >>member, we should only submit it as enhancement request to the wishlist. >>I think some sort of 'flashing' the window content by redrawing it may be enough to >>make you aware that *something* happened. > >note: there already are two kinds of graphical feedback. > >1. The member selection changes to the new member (& the member hilight changes >accordingly). >2. the appropriate menu header flashes ... (at least on Mac) > -> Save flashes the word 'File' & Duplicate flashes 'Edit' > >-Buzz > >>I'll request that right away or are there thoughts against that ? >> >> >>-- >> >> ||| >>a�ex >> -- >> >>[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >>http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL >>PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping >>with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL >PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping >with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
