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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jon,

Just because it’s a bit of a side-effect.  It’s not clear to the user that her schematic is going to be saved.  She could theoretically have changes there that she wasn’t sure about yet.  (Although it seems like a long-shot that she’d then go spend some time in CvPcb, I guess.)

Still, it’s a side-effect so I don’t like it.  Nor do I like nanny dialogs.  Thus my conundrum. ;)

Cheers,
Jeff.

> On 20 Mar 2018, at 17:28, Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Why don't you like the idea of saving the schematic when you hit the save button? That seems like a reasonable expected behavior to me at least.
> 
> (I dislike nag dialogs especially when they seem to have no purpose)
> 
> -Jon
> 
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 1:26 PM, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> CvPcb has a Save command (complete with disk icon).  Only it doesn’t do that.  (It simply writes the changes back to eeschema.)
> 
> If it were a dialog, I’d say that’s not good.  But this is CvPcb, where you could easily spend an hour making associations (hitting save every few minutes), only to have your machine and/or Kicad go down with all your changes.  That’s borderline horrific.
> 
> I don’t like the idea of blind-saving the eeschema document, but I think that would be better than what we have now.
> 
> Another idea would be to trigger an auto-save for each CvPcb save.  It’s not ideal because the user may think that there aren’t any changes in their eeschema file and therefore ignore the auto-save warning when restarting.
> 
> Yet another idea would be to foist the decision on the user with a “Save your schematic?” dialog every time you save in CvPcb.  That’s pretty hard to love, but with Orson’s new KIDIALOG we could at least have a “don’t ask me again” checkbox.  Maybe that’s not so bad….
> 
> Thoughts?
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