Jeff,
Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse wrote:
>
> When I am updating a few issues at a time, I like to open them all from
> the issue list in a tabbed browser, then zip through the tabs and make
> the change to each one. Some of those changes generate popups that,
> when closed, reload the issue to reflect the changes.
>
> If you update another issue before you dismiss the popup, it reuses the
> existing popup window. (Which, thank you for that by the way.) But
> then the other issue doesn't get updated.
>
> I noticed in the preferences panel that there is an auto-close option
> for popup panels, but it closes fast enough that I worry about the
> possibility that I'll miss an error message.
>
> I've seen "Beware! Abandon thou this page and disaster shall smite thy
> changes, proceed?" functionality elsewhere in Eventum (email composition
> I think). Would it be possible to use whatever detects that to figure
> out when a popup is being reused and have it run the code it would have
> run if I had closed it instead?
>
> I'm afraid I don't know enough about Javascript to know whether this is
> easy or impossible.
I think the best solution is if there is an error in the popup, do not
autoclose the popup and if you try to navigate away from the page
display a warning. This will allow you to have the popups auto close,
but will prevent you from missing an error.
How does this sound to you?
Regards,
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Bryan Alsdorf, Software Engineer
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