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Creative Basic => General Questions => Topic started by: Egil on June 30, 2018, 11:27:07 AM

Title: Auto-save
Post by: Egil on June 30, 2018, 11:27:07 AM
At present I'm experimenting with some weird ideas to test what is possible to do, and I suddenly ran into a dilemma.
I want to add auto-save to a notes-taking section. At present I set auto-save to 15 seconds intervals, but wonder if anyone know if there is a standard for such intervals. If not I should like to know what intervals you prefer.


Egil
Title: Re: Auto-save
Post by: billhsln on June 30, 2018, 04:58:09 PM
I would think more like every 3 to 5 minutes would make more sense.  Other wise, on older machines, it would be saving all the time.

Bill
Title: Re: Auto-save
Post by: Egil on July 01, 2018, 12:19:00 AM
Thanks Bill!
You're quite right. So I will change the intervals when I see that everything works ok.


Egil
Title: Re: Auto-save
Post by: Brian on July 01, 2018, 03:15:55 AM
I worked on an editorial system at our newsoaper that saved every time you pressed Return on a paragraph
Great on short stories, but became tedious on longer stuff!

Brian
Title: Re: Auto-save
Post by: Egil on July 01, 2018, 03:30:46 AM
Brian,
That's what I started with, but  thought there must be better ways. Therefore I began experimenting with a timer controlled save routine.

Egil