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POV-Ray
Port of FS151 - No way to cancel save while parsing, never ending errors
http://bugs.povray.org/task/151
(I'm not a windows user. No testing on port. Issue reported for Windows 7 & 3.70 beta 37a)
Details:
On Windows, when I try and save a file while it is being parsed prior to rendering, I get an error, "Failed to save file: The operation completed successfully", with a single OK button to click. Despite the weird wording, I'm OK with that.
However after clicking OK I get the error, "Failed to save file '...'", with three buttons: Cancel, Try Again, Continue. Not sure what "Continue" means in this context, given that the possibilities would seem to be covered by the other two buttons. Whatever.
Also, sometimes I get a message with only a single "Retry" button. Not sure what the exact message was.
Anyway, the real problem is that, regardless of which button I press, the program continues to spawning the same error message endlessly. Luckily there is a delay between them, but still it would be nice to have at least one of the three buttons stop POV-Ray from asking me again.
Also, once the program finishes parsing the file and it becomes possible once again to save the file, it does nothing. I.e. it doesn't save the file. So what's the point of the message and all the options? Why not just say, "Unable to save the file, file is parsing" and be done with it?
I think I recall the same behavior in 3.6.2, so it's nothing new that's been introduced
Comments:
Comment by Thorsten Fröhlich (thorsten) - Tuesday, 23 August 2011, 10:52 GMT+5
Has this changed by now?
For the records: Given the state of this issue, I presume we don't consider it important enough to address in v3.8.0.
