I just noticed an odd behavior in the way the windows help function
works in the Pov editor. If you want help on a keyword you can place
the cursor over the word in question and then press control+F1. This
will pop up the dialog for that word. That's a neat trick and I use
it often. However in the process of doing so it also automaticaly
saves the current active window regardless if you wish it to do so or
not.
  Often this is not a real problem but it could be if you have made
a large number of changes and decide to chicken out at the last minute
and leave it as it was. I realize you can use the undo feature to return
back out to what it was but I am sure not everyone is aware of this
behavior and it could result in possible lost work.
  Is this really acceptable behavior ? I certainly have never witnessed
similar behavior in other windows applications.

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Ken Tyler

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Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
>   Is this really acceptable behavior ? I certainly have never witnessed

Yes. From the POV-Ray for Windows manual ...

'If Auto-Reload is set to either 'Ask' or 'Always', be aware that switching focus
 to another application also causes all of your files to be automatically saved.'

Hint: WinHelp is another application.

> similar behavior in other windows applications.

Many do - my programmers editor (Multi-Edit) for example.

-- Chris

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Chris Cason wrote:
> 
> Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> >   Is this really acceptable behavior ? I certainly have never witnessed
> 
> Yes. From the POV-Ray for Windows manual ...
> 
> 'If Auto-Reload is set to either 'Ask' or 'Always', be aware that switching focus
>  to another application also causes all of your files to be automatically saved.'
> 
> Hint: WinHelp is another application.
> 
> > similar behavior in other windows applications.
> 
> Many do - my programmers editor (Multi-Edit) for example.
> 
> -- Chris

Thank you for clarifying that for me Chris.

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Ken Tyler

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Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:

> Thank you for clarifying that for me Chris.

No problem. Though I was surprised that I needed to tell -you- about
something that's in the manual ... ;)

-- Chris

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Chris Cason wrote:
> 
> Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> 
> > Thank you for clarifying that for me Chris.
> 
> No problem. Though I was surprised that I needed to tell -you- about
> something that's in the manual ... ;)
> 
> -- Chris

  I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy, ...

-- 
Ken Tyler

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