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Check if a file has been modified before exit

#1

Hi, today I was working on some ideas in the Cabbage editor and then, after some time, I closed Cabbage because I thought I saved the file. But I was wrong: I hadn’t saved it and Cabbage didn’t warn me when I closed it, so I lost the code. Fortunately I remembered all the code I wrote.

The strange thing is that if I save the file before exit, then Cabbage displays a window with “Save changes made to Cabbage patch?”… So, it warns me when I save, but it doesn’t warn me when I don’t save… Shouldn’t it be the contrary? :slight_smile:

#2

It certainly should. If not it’s a bug. I’ll take a look. Btw, Cabbage always saves your file each time you run something?

#3

Yes, I’m used to press ctrl+s to save&run some code, but sometimes I just want to write something to remember later without having to run it. And I didn’t find an option to save without run.

Anyway:

  1. run Cabbage;
  2. write something in the code editor;
  3. Exit from Cabbage with the [X] button of its window => Cabbage exit immediately without asking you to save your changes. At least, this happens on Windows.
#4

I’m just seeing this now myself. Arrggh, I wonder how long its been like this. This is quite a serious issue. Another thing that would be nice would be a “paste to temporary file” option so users could copy code from anywhere and then paste and run it in Cabbage without needing to save the file first.

#5

It would be good. This is the way CsoundQt works: the first time you run a piece of anonymous code, CsoundQt asks you if you want to save the file with a given name or if you want just to run the code as a temp file you don’t care of.