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Hitting ESC while in Title Designer closes editing session WITHOUT save ... ;-(
SeaLyon99 [Avatar]
Member Joined: Jul 26, 2013 09:16 Messages: 79 Offline
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Why does hitting ESC close Title Designer WITHOUT saving your editing session? Has anyone seen this before? Is it a repeatable bug? NEEDS TO BE FIXED ... very frustrating!!!
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If I understand right.
You must close Title Designer at Save button to update your editing or Cancel to exit without saving. AMD-FX 8350 / 8GB DDR3
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SeaLyon99 [Avatar]
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If the ESC key is hit accidentally, Title Designer just shuts down without SAVING and you lose your editing session.
SeaLyon99 [Avatar]
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Just to protect your editing session, SAVE really shouldn't close Title Designer. I think it would be better to allow SAVE to just save your current session and leave Title Designer open so you can continue editing work. Having to close the window to just save your session (and then have to re-open) is just wasting time.
borgus1 [Avatar]
Senior Contributor Joined: Feb 27, 2013 00:33 Messages: 1318 Offline
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Quote: Just to protect your editing session, SAVE really shouldn't close Title Designer.


Use SAVE AS.

ESC = cancel

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SeaLyon99 [Avatar]
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Title Designer should NOT automatically close when ESC (or any key sequence) is hit, especially when text entry or formatting changes have been made. From a programming perspective, the standard mechanism for addressing this is to pop-up a confirmation dialog asking if you want to SAVE before exiting. All of your text entry work should not automatically disappear because you mistakenly hit a pre-defined key sequence.

SAVE AS does keep Title Designer open BUT it is saving a text template not the actual text slide that is being generated. So it's use here really doesn't apply.
SoCalDude
Member Location: Sunny Southern California Joined: Aug 12, 2013 20:48 Messages: 60 Offline
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I vote for having a confirmation before the window closes because of an errant <Esc> key press.

The confirmation should ask if you want to close the window without saving, providing two buttons, "OK" and "Cancel". If you don't want to close without saving, then clicking on the "Cancel" button returns you to that window so you can save it. ---
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Quote: If the ESC key is hit accidentally, Title Designer just shuts down without SAVING and you lose your editing session.

If it hurts when you do that...don't do that.

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SeaLyon99 [Avatar]
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Well, ESC is a typical cancel key in Windows and when editing a specific text portion and wanting to quit that specific editing portion, I instinctively hit ESC. Can I "un-learn" that, sure, but should I have to? And no matter what, PD should NEVER cancel anything that is lost forever without getting confirmation.

I've posted this problem to CyberLink and they confirm it is an issue but gave no indication of when/if it will be fixed. Not good ...

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GGRussell [Avatar]
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Quote: Well, ESC is a typical cancel key in Windows
So all editing SHOULD be lost if you cancel. I see no issue here as you are cancelling all edits.
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Quote: Well, ESC is a typical cancel key in Windows
So all editing SHOULD be lost if you cancel. I see no issue here as you are cancelling all edits.


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Quote: If the ESC key is hit accidentally, Title Designer just shuts down without SAVING and you lose your editing session.

If it hurts when you do that...don't do that.


Hi SeaLyon99,
This is a unique post. Ever since the PowerDirector forums started I cant recall ever reading a post about hitting the Esc button on the keyboard. I've quoted the latest two succinct opinions and they're really spot on in my view.

Please go to Edit/Keyboard Hotkeys/Customize and see if you can add Esc to your Keyboard controls - as you want it to perform in PDR11.

Dafydd



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SoCalDude
Member Location: Sunny Southern California Joined: Aug 12, 2013 20:48 Messages: 60 Offline
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Quote:
Quote: Well, ESC is a typical cancel key in Windows
So all editing SHOULD be lost if you cancel. I see no issue here as you are cancelling all edits.

If your logic is valid, then if I choose "File > New Project", why does PD ask me if I want to save my currently loaded project if it has changed? I told PD I want a NEW project, so it should just take me there (and discard all my current changes), right? I disagree--and apparently CyberLink disagrees, also.

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