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Re: one document at a time

On Dec 14, 2004, at 23:22, Jeff LaMarche wrote:
Well, before anything, I'd suggest you think through this. As an end user, I find the one-document restriction annoying in most applications that use it. I have trouble seeing why Quicktime Player allows multiple movies, but Windows Media Player allows only one, for example. There are some cases where it seems to make sense, though.

So, if you're sure it's the right thing to do, I would suggest that the easiest thing is to simply gray the "new document" menu item when a document is opened or created, and enable it when there a document is closed. With the "open document" option, you should ask to save, close without saving, or cancel before presenting the standard open dialog.

I understand and I agree. But this is really an exception. The purpose of the application is to walk through a set of documents (it's a clinical study), analyzing and printing each one. Documents should be processed sequentially, one after another, and beacuse there will be a lot of them, it's necessary to make it as comfortable and as time-saving as possible. That's the reason for such a suspicious "feature".

Some day, when processing order is deducable from filenames or file creation dates, I probably add some "Next" button or some hotkey for transition to the next document, as if it is a record in a recordset.

On Dec 15, 2004, at 12:33, Jonathon Mah wrote:
And remember to handle cases where the user selects and opens multiple documents from the Finder. 
Yup.

As a proof of concept, I tried to handle -openDocument: in my document and ask document controller to open a new document without a UI. Than I moved window controllers from current document to the new document and let them reload contents. At last I closed current document. It seemed to be working, I'll investigate it more.

Thanks again,
Jirka.

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