Re: Common Save Confirmation Dialogue

[Ben Maurer <bmaurer ximian com>]

On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 23:58 +0100, Marc O'Morain wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I originally sent this idea to desktop-devel-list, but it was decided
> that this was a better list to post to.
> 
> Attached is some code to create a HIG-compliant save confirmation
> message box. This message box would be shown when a user attempts to
> exit a program before they have saved changes they have made. At the
> moment each application must implement this message box themselves,
> which leads to repetition of code and wasted time.

Some applications, like MonoDevelop or gedit need a way to specify
multiple documents eg:

If you quit now, changes from these documents will be lost
    * blah.cs
    * foo.cs
    * baz.cs

The dialog lets you choose what (if anything) to save.

-- Ben