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[Clemens Koller <cko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

On 2017-11-23 09:53, Julius Schmidt wrote:
> It definitely modifies files, as is obvious from the code.
>              for( SCH_SCREEN* screen = schematic.GetFirst(); screen; screen = schematic.GetNext() )
>                  SaveEEFile( screen, false, CREATE_BACKUP_FILE );
> 
> is called before the dialog box appears.
> Moving that into the case where the remap button is actually pressed would 
> solve the problem.
> It'd also be nice if the remap dialog clearly stated "this will modify the 
> files on disk".

Users usually expect that *nothing* will modify their (design-)files on disk until some "save" or "commit" button is pressed.

Regards,

Clemens