"Automatically save project file"

On 11/15/09 11:44, Andreas Weidner wrote:

This might be a bug, or it might be by design, but at least I do not

understand it: In EAGLE 5.6.1 (Windows), the control panel features a

dialog with the check box "Automatically save project file", which is

checked by default.

 

One CAN uncheck it, but

1. the next time a project is opened, it's checked again, and

2. even if no project is opened, the next time EAGLE is started,

    it's checked again.

 

So what does this strange check box do, and what good is it to uncheck

it, if under lots of circumstances it's automatically checked again

shortly after one chose to explicitly uncheck it?

Looks like there is some explanatory text missing in the online help.

I have added this now to "Help/Control Panel/Backup/Automatically save project file":

  Note that if you uncheck this option while you have a project open, this

  project will not be saved when you close it, and thus this setting will not

  be stored in the project's eagle.epf file. This means that the next time you

  open the project, this option will be checked again. If you want this option

  to remain unchecked for the current project, you need to manually select

  "File/Save all" from the pulldown menu after unchecking this option.

Klaus Schmidinger

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Klaus Schmidinger                       Phone: +49-8635-6989-10

CadSoft Computer GmbH                   Fax:   +49-8635-6989-40

Pleidolfweg 15                          Email:   kls@cadsoft.de

D-84568 Pleiskirchen, Germany           URL:     www.cadsoft.de

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On 11/15/09 11:44, Andreas Weidner wrote:

This might be a bug, or it might be by design, but at least I do not

understand it: In EAGLE 5.6.1 (Windows), the control panel features a

dialog with the check box "Automatically save project file", which is

checked by default.

 

One CAN uncheck it, but

1. the next time a project is opened, it's checked again, and

2. even if no project is opened, the next time EAGLE is started,

    it's checked again.

 

So what does this strange check box do, and what good is it to uncheck

it, if under lots of circumstances it's automatically checked again

shortly after one chose to explicitly uncheck it?

Looks like there is some explanatory text missing in the online help.

I have added this now to "Help/Control Panel/Backup/Automatically save project file":

  Note that if you uncheck this option while you have a project open, this

  project will not be saved when you close it, and thus this setting will not

  be stored in the project's eagle.epf file. This means that the next time you

  open the project, this option will be checked again. If you want this option

  to remain unchecked for the current project, you need to manually select

  "File/Save all" from the pulldown menu after unchecking this option.

Klaus Schmidinger

--

_______________________________________________________________

Klaus Schmidinger                       Phone: +49-8635-6989-10

CadSoft Computer GmbH                   Fax:   +49-8635-6989-40

Pleidolfweg 15                          Email:   kls@cadsoft.de

D-84568 Pleiskirchen, Germany           URL:     www.cadsoft.de

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