At 7:30 AM -0700 4/19/99, Shaolin Hu wrote:
>Is there a way I can make it to return to my application at exactly where
>they left off.
>I have been asked several times by my users to have this feature and I have
>been telling them it is impossible, am I right?
It's not impossible. As several people have pointed out, you just need to
write your app so it saves the 'current state' when it quits, then returns
to that state when it's launched later.
Note, however, that in general this may NOT be what users actually want.
The built in PIM apps deliberately avoid doing this. Instead, when you
launch the app they take you to the screen you're most likely to need.
Dates takes you to todays agenda, names takes you to the all names list so
you can search, etc.
The idea is you figure out what things users need to do with your app, then
make them as simple as possible. Talking to users and implementing their
suggestions is often a good way to do that, but it's also often a good way
to miss giving them features they didn't even know they needed. In
general, users will ask for more of what they've already got, which may or
may not be what you actually want to give them.
Anyway, only you know your app and your users, so you'll have to decide
what's best. I just wanted to throw out this differing opinion before you
got too caught up in implenting go-back-to-the-same-place.
--Bob
