peter88213
peter88213
I have read through your arguments and want to make some suggestions. First possibility: - When opening a project, create a working copy in a temporary directory. - When closing...
That sounds good. Then the irritating pop-up on program termination could be omitted? It follows a logic that is exactly opposite to the usual one, namely not forgetting to save.
Well, one principle of good UI design is to require user interaction only when there are choices. I mean, real choices. I think that after a short time the serious...
Sure, it's your show. With writing software, I've actually seen the autosave feature more often. So also with yWriter, which however does not show a popup on exit.
* As mentioned earlier, you could make the message optional. For example, with a "Do not remind me again" checkbox. * Another idea: Bind the confirmation only to *Ctrl-Q* key...
I guess that such a view can be implemented relatively easily with a grid containing differently formatted text labels. I have implemented [something similar](https://peter88213.github.io/yw-table/) with tkinter:  Via callback methods...
I think, this applies to running it from source, with a Python 3.11 installation from the python.org download page. I changed [my own installation script](https://github.com/peter88213/novelyst/blob/main/src/setup.pyw) to omit the shebang when...
`Does it still launch with the old shebang if you call python novelWriter.py?` Yes, on the command line this seems to call directly the interpreter to which PATH leads. However,...
On a side note, the *.pyw* extension seems to be meant as a discriminator for the Python launcher. If you call *pythonw.exe* directly, your script's extension may be *.py* as...
That reminds me of the cordless tools you can buy either withBattery and charger, or "barebone". However, the full Python distribution is quite a chunk, isn't it? I can't offer...