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Rename project file behaviour

Started by thomas, December 09, 2009, 02:24:33 PM

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thomas

Is it just me, or is overwriting without asking maybe not such a good behaviour for "rename project file"?

I've just inadvertedly renamed a project file to another file with the same name, and guess what happened :)
"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: Premature quotation is the root of public humiliation."

Jenna

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Quote from: thomas on December 09, 2009, 02:24:33 PM
Is it just me, or is overwriting without asking maybe not such a good behaviour for "rename project file"?
How do you rename a project-file ?
Or do you mean rename a file belonging to a project ?

Nevertheless, that shuld of course never happen without asking.

On windows it's no problem to rename a file and overwrite an existing file with it, in linux simply nothing happens.
The linux behaviour is more secure, but just doing nothing (without any message) is always not what I expect to happen in such a case.

EDIT:
The different behaviour is caused by a different function-call on msw and linux.
On windows the parameter overwrite is set to true !!

If renaming does not work wxBell is called, that might be the cause,that I did not get any message, because I normally turned off all system-sounds.

Jenna

Should be fixed in trunk.
Now only files with the same name, but different cases are overwritten (on windows).


thomas

"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: Premature quotation is the root of public humiliation."