Don't update "recent files" when loading fails

[ocroquette]

Hi

When you open EA, you have the list of previous documents presented to you.

If you click on one EAP filename which is not available anymore (file deleted or moved), then EA fails to load it, but it still puts it on the top of the list again.

This is not very useful and even annoying! The wrong names keep staying at the top of the list if you forget you moved them and click them once in a while.

Thanks

[«Midnight»]

Use the main menu or the tool button to invoke the Open Project dialog. In this dialog you can highlight one of the projects in the Recent Projects list and then click Remove select from list.

This is a trade-off that many applications face. The alternative is to go through the recent projects and attempt to find each file. If not found the file is taken off the list, and the list is then persisted so that the file is not checked next time. Applications like some versions of Office and Visual Studio have done it this way. It does result in some delay when the application starts up.

Either way you're bound to get some complaints. Each company must choose which way to go, based on the relative comfort of their user community.

David

[ocroquette]

Thanks for the reply.

I understand the trade-off, but there is still one more solution: when the user clicks on the welcome plane on an non-existing project, it would be just removed from the list.

It seems better to me than the current solution, since it doesn't cause any startup delays, but allows for a semi-automatic maintenance of the list.

By the way, sorry, I wanted to post in the request forum.

[«Midnight»]

That could work well, perhaps with a simple dialog to ask whether the project should be deleted, or allow the user to browse to the new location (if the project were moved, for example). We'd need some kind of message anyway, so this wouldn't be too much overhead for the application or the user.

As to the forum section, no harm done. Why don't you send this in to Sparx as a feature request. Include a link to this thread so the Sparxians can monitor the level of interest. And, if you get any feedback from Sparx, please post it to the thread so we all know what's going on.

You can get to the feature request page by clicking the Support link at the top of any forum page, then following the Feature Request link in the left side menu. Or from the EA main menu choose Help | On-line Resources | Request-a-Feature.

David

[ocroquette]

Feature request sent.