You can always ask and I'm not against Autosave.
But if saving is simple on a technical point of view (saving already exists and programming a timer isn't difficult), it's more complicated than it looks like on a user interface point of view:
- When autosave should be run? Always after a certain period of time, even in the middle of a user input? Only between inputs? Then what is considered as an input?
- What feedback should be given to the user? Should a blocking save dialog box should appear? Or should a message appear in a status bar (then I'll have to create a status bar)? Or no feedback at all (the user could guess it was saved from the modified info in the title bar)?
- If there's no blocking save dialog box, what will happen if saving fails or if the user request to save while a saving operation occurs in a background task?
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Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator
