[APBeta] V17

[Hilary Jones]

Robin,

I don't exactly agree with your last comment.  Most applications (in Windows 
at least) have two ways to close windows.  First, you can click the "close 
box" in the upper righthand corner beside the application's menu bar, and 
that will close the application and all of its windows.  I find it very 
surprising when I click that box in AstroPlanner and only one document 
closes; and rather unnerving when a splash screen pops up to replace the 
last document.  On the other hand, most applications also have a close box 
associated with each of the application's document windows, and if you click 
that, then only that one document closes.  I think some Microsoft programs 
might be exceptions to that rule, but they are confusing too!  I prefer the 
dual close box idea.

Hilary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RPEHLM" <robin at lauryssen-mitchell.com>
To: "AstroPlanner Beta Testers" <apbeta at lists.astroplanner.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: [APBeta] V17


>> >>Also the astroplanner splash screen seems to remain open when you
>> close the application.
> >This is a feature to stop the app quitting when you close the last
> window, but is causing a lot of confusion. I'm currently thinking of 
> making the default behaviour just to quit,
> >and remember the last closed plan for re-opening when you restart the
> app (as an option).
>
> Ah, now I think I know what you are looking at.  This is not really a 
> splash screen, it just looks like it because of the background graphic. 
> If you look above the graphic you should see a standard AP menu bar.  If 
> you don't then something else is going on.
>
> Paul, please do not change this behaviour or at least make it optional. 
> Most programs do not close down when the last document is closed.  Think 
> of a word processor application.  It would be very annoying for a word 
> processor to shut down just because you closed the document currently 
> being worked on (even if it is the only one open)!
>
> Regards
> Robin
>
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