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kmcintyre

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Subject : Please revisit Strategy Wizard's File Management
Posted : 1/23/2020 8:30 AM
Post #46647

Maybe it is just me, but I am used to Windows apps starting with a blank document, requiring a Save As to assign a name, and allowing / requiring me to Save changes when I am ready to do so.

Here are my notes (after wasting a day overwriting otd files by accident.)

Oddities of the SaveAs and Load SW buttons...
0 - SE always starts with the last used file loaded
1 - SaveAs saves the Settings and Output tabs (perhaps the graphs too) BUT DOES NOT CHANGE THE ACTIVE FILE
2 -There is no Save button. Any changes are automatically Saved to the active file
3 - So it is REALLY easy to make inadvertant changes to the LAST SW test
4 - The directory last saved to is not sticky. SaveAs always goes to the OT2020\Strategy Wizard dir.,
5 - Ditto for the Load directory. Load always goes to the OT2020\Strategy Wizard folder

SO - FIRST THING, when starting SW, immediately do a SaveAS to a new name. Then do a Load of the file you just created with SaveAs. Then Clear the experiment, select the Strategy and Timeframe (and probably every other control on the Settings tab). Add your rules, run your experiment. It would appear saving your work is totally optional, until you desire to start a new Experiment. (Kinda like Reverse Polish Notation calculators...)

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Subject : RE: Please revisit Strategy Wizard's File Manageme
Posted : 1/23/2020 8:56 AM
Post #46648 - In reply to #46647

I also felt it odd to first do a "Save As" and then load the saved file and clear the old experiment. Many times I inadvertently overwrote the old experiment which I wanted to keep.

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mgerber

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Subject : RE: Please revisit Strategy Wizard's File Manageme
Posted : 1/23/2020 5:01 PM
Post #46654 - In reply to #46648

I concur.

Whenever I use SW I feel that I have to very carefully tiptoe, as if on egg shells, so as not to suddenly loose my work!

--Mark G.

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Subject : RE: Please revisit Strategy Wizard's File Manageme
Posted : 8/18/2020 12:03 PM
Post #47455 - In reply to #46647

Barry,

The change log of PR-2R mentions:
(Strategy Wizard) Save As now also loads the new experiment file.

Does that takes care of the oddity detailed in this post?

[Edited by Vinay on 8/18/2020 12:08 PM]

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Barry Cohen

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