Opened 5 years ago

Closed 5 years ago

#3216 closed enhancement (fixed)

open/save need to be aware of uninstalled formats

Reported by: Eric Pettersen Owned by: Eric Pettersen
Priority: moderate Milestone: 1.2
Component: Input/Output Version:
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: 1827 Blocking:
Notify when closed: Platform: all
Project: ChimeraX

Description (last modified by Eric Pettersen)

Also Info.plist. So toolshed needs to be enhanced to allow access to the information.

Change History (7)

comment:1 by Eric Pettersen, 5 years ago

Milestone: 1.1 → 1.2

comment:2 by Eric Pettersen, 5 years ago

Description: modified (diff)

comment:3 by Eric Pettersen, 5 years ago

Blocked By: → 1827

comment:4 by Eric Pettersen, 5 years ago

Blocked By: 1827 → #1827

comment:5 by Eric Pettersen, 5 years ago

Blocked By: #1827 → 1827

comment:6 by Eric Pettersen, 5 years ago

My email containing the ideas for making uninstalled formats accessible:

[Deleted question about whether uninstalled formats should be shown; Info.plist already includes uninstalled formats]. If the user actually tries to use a regular "open" or "save" command for such a format, it will log an error with information about obtaining the format from the Toolshed.

If they were listed in the Open/Save dialogs, I think the "options" area would say that the format is available on the Toolshed with a link. The problem with that is that only the Save dialog has an options area. I guess the Open dialog would have to allow the user to go through the whole process of trying to open the file and then rely on the "open" command to give the feedback.

If they are listed in "open formats" and "save formats", they would have to be marked up in some way as being uninstalled (maybe an asterisk).

comment:7 by Eric Pettersen, 5 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: assigned → closed
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