At 12:03 PM +0000 12/1/01, Andrew Rodger wrote: >At 7:15 pm +1100 12/1/01, Geoffrey Heard wrote: >>Then there are the ordinary citizens who finally learned top save >>before they began to type! > >Well good for you. I have a working system which involves drawing and >writing and it is very useful, because of the way I work, to have automated >saving. With my drawing application, on first save, it shows me an alert >and beeps, with writing it shows me an alert and does not beep, so it is >sort of half alert. I cannot stand the machine babbling at me every time >something comes up on the screen, so I do not do "speak alerts". I was >merely asking for an option to have a wee beep to get my attention. >Ironically I write looking down and I draw looking up. I was looking for >logic rather than a work round, unless it is something I can tweak with >ResEdit. Relax Roger, I wasn't holding myself up as the greatest. It took years, but it is a habit I have now adopted across all my programs, writing, outlining, DTP, drawing, database, spreadsheet, even emailing -- and I feel any program which does not autosave is crippled (there's a lot of it about). And, yes, I still get caught. Speak alerts? Aaaaarrrggghhhhh! I fight a constant running battle with the teenager to keep them turned off. Cheers, Geoff
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