On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 00:09:40 +0200 (Romance Daylight Time) Vadim
Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Looking at the code the only scenario in which this can happen is
when all > of the following conditions are true: > > 1. you're changing
some important setting (e.g. not a colour or something > trivial like
this) > 2. you had previously disabled the msg box asking you whether
you want to > test the setup after such changes on "Yes", so it is
always tested > without even asking you > 3. the test fails in some
strange silent way
Ah, you were basically right, except it was a different dialog --
disabled on No. Here's what was happening: I had turned off the
dialog that says "you didn't supply a password for this folder but it
needs one", but apparently I had accidentally clicked No instead of Yes
in that dialog. So it was automatically assuming I wanted to enter a
password and not letting me exit the dialog. (Thanks for steering me
in the right direction.)
I would suggest that some change be made to prevent this; the
effect is completely hidden and difficult to diagnose. One possible fix
would be to not allow a dialog box to be turned off in a state where it
would prevent the main options dialog from exiting. That is, you
should not be able to choose "No" (thus keeping you in the options
dialog) if you have selected to turn off the dialog box. (The No but
should just gray out or something.) If the user ever accidentally does
this with any of the dialogs that asks "are you sure you want to do
these changes", they will be unable to ever make any further changes
to the options. So basically what I'm saying is, when the dialog box is
asking whether you want to save changes, you should not be able to
say "No, I never want to save them".
Incidentally, another bug that I've mentioned before: the Help
window is linked in some way to the main Mahogany window. If I
open Help, I cannot switch to the main window; it always shows the
help window instead. I have to close the help to get back to using
Mahogany.
-- --Brendan Barnwell
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is
no path, and leave a trail."
--author unknown
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