2009/9/8 Hussein Shafie <hussein at xmlmind.com> > Benoit Maisonny wrote: > > Sorry I missed it. I thought I searched hard enough... This new feature > > is already a major improvement for us, thanks! > > > > It would be even better if XXE could notify the user when XXE (or an > > individual file window in XXE) gets the focus again. This is safer in > > the situation where the user saves the file, then the external > > application modifies it, then the user starts editing again. > > > > When the user saves the file, it's already too late to notify: an unsafe > > manual merge needs to be performed by the user at this point. If the > > user is notified when XXE gets the focus back, the user has a chance to > > reload the file before making further changes. This situation is common > > with a version management system (save, update, solve conflict if any, > > commit). > > > > Yes, we know that the author could be notified earlier. > > We have implemented something minimal which is inexpensive to implement > and inexpensive to run. > > We think that document authoring is very different from programming. In > our opinion, locking documents when they potentially can be modified by > different authors is acceptable. >
Please be informed that, in our use cases, there are times when this is not acceptable. > That's why we do not plan to go further in terms of concurrent change > detection. > Our software manages concurrency, change detection and conflict resolution: we don't need you to take care of that. We only need an editor software that warns the user in due time.
