Improvements for the "Save Changes?" dialog

[parthabe]

I've been wondering for years now why the LV Save (& Save All) dialog is quite unusual in terms of its layout & usability.

Redesign the "Save Changes?" dialogin accordance with the standard dialog design criteria as follows.

• Resize the dialog to be somewhat bigger than now.
• Place the Apply same action checkbox & the Affected items list at the top half of the dialog. Remove these items from the tabbing list, so the user can easily tab among the other 3 buttons, with Save highlighted by default.
• The Affected items list is not sorted properly, but in the Explain Changes dialog, it seems the VI List is alphabatically sorted. So when you select a VI in  the Affected Items list & click the "List unsaved changes..." hyperlink-like text, the selections are confusing to the user. PFB snapshot.

• Additionally, the selection in the Affected Items list is not actually a selection, but looks like only a marquee. It gives a false impression that the selected item can be edited. Fix this.
• Make the Affected Items list to be vertically scrollable, instead of the current horizontally scrollable style, which is highly cumbersome.
• Change the "List unsaved changes..." hyperlink-like text into a button that is prominently visible. New users think that this would open a web browser.
• Place the Save (All), Defer Decision / Don't Save (All) & Cancel buttons at the bottm right of the dialog in a horizontal fashion.
• Add the Help button, like in many other dialogs in LV.
• Keep the name of the dialog to be consistent - "Save changes before closing?", instead of like "Save changes? (Close Project)" - The Close Project text is misleading.

[RavensFan]

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@parthabe wrote:

• Keep the name of the dialog to be consistent - "Save changes before closing?", instead of like "Save changes? (Close Project)" - The Close Project text is misleading.

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I'm confused by this one.  I don't see where either of the dialogs shown is talking about "Close Project'.

[parthabe]

I meant the dialog popped up (see below a snapshot) when trying to close a Project with unsaved changes, not either of the above.

[d.w.b]

I'll be happier with just the window being resizable, so affected items are easier to see. I suggest vertical scroll bar instead of horizontall.

[d.w.b]

Make double-clicking one of the "Affected items" open it. One scenario is when there are MANY to save but one or a few not to (see "Spec" in screenshot below). Unchecking "Apply same action to the remaining ... affected items" could take a long time and risk a mis-click. If one to discard is opened, it could be closed separately (or revert changes) to exclude it from the list so "Save - All" could be used.