[Bf-committers] exit in blender

[Campbell Barton]

>From this thread it seems obvious that the current quit.blend has
enough problems, we can probably come up with something better,
Plumi-Blender's method of dealing with this problem seem good, though
Im not sure about multiple backups (as a default at least).

IMHO Blender should work like other apps, asking before quitting, or
loading files when there are user changes. and optionally saving a
backup in the same dir, on exit.
Maybe .blend~ extension could be used rather then /tmp/quit.blend,
(many text editors use ~ for this purpose)

- Cam

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Claudio malefico Andaur
<malefico at manosdigitales.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
>  At "Plumiferos" we dealed with this problem in infinite occasions, even
>  though most of us were experienced users, sometimes we worked with two,
>  three and even four blender sessions at once, In those cases it's fairly
>  easy to shutdown without having saved something.
>
>  What we did was:
>
>  1- Add a confirmation ON FILE LOAD (if you have unsaved changes) This was
>  optional since many animators complained.
>
>  2- Add a confirmation on EXIT, IF THERE WERE CHANGES or pushes in UNDO
>  Stack. Other wise Blender quits right away without even the current
>  "Quit?" prompt.
>
>  3- Add a custom .backup folder were copies of the current file were saved
>  every Autosave time.
>
>  4- Add a "Clean Backup" option so, this folder is emptied whenever you
>  wanted (not automatically done).
>
>  With all these together, it was really hard to loose something...
>
>  All these are available as patches, ask Diego Borghetti (bdiego) if want
>  to check them out. They're also available in Plumiblender at
>  graphicall.org.
>
>  Best regards
>
>  Claudio "malefico" Andaur
>
>  Character Technical Director
>  Manos Digitales Animation Studio
>
>
>
>
>  On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Campbell Barton wrote:
>
>  > quit.blend is a weak solution to me,
>  > * editmode changes are not saved
>  > * it isnt created if users dont have write permissions to the temp dir
>  > (apparently this happens on some windows setups)
>  > * loading the blend file from a different location will break relative
>  > linked library data.
>  > IMHO blender should ask for quitting like most other apps do.
>  >
>  > at the moment this is the most requested for change on
>  > http://www.blenderstorm.org/qapoll/ideas/most_popular_ever/
>  > developers like being able to open/close blender fast for testing, but
>  > I think users would rather their work is not lost by accident.
>  >
>  >
>  > On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 3:59 AM, GSR <gsr.b3d at infernal-iceberg.com> wrote:
>  >> Hi,
>  >>  bebinalpha at gmail.com (2008-04-19 at 0721.28 +0530):
>  >>
>  >>> When i accidentally clicked the exit button in blender it closes without any
>  >> > confirmation message i frequently loose my file this way how to prevent it
>  >>
>  >>  http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/User_Preferences
>  >>  and search the text quit.blend for the info.
>  >>
>  >>  GSR