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Posted by starrunner at Sep 30, 2010, 12:12:15 PM

Re: I may have been sketching out a home but I'm in the dog's house now...
What about an auto save like this:

Every x minutes the current (modified) project is saved into a special file beside the project file (e.g. called {file name} + "~"). As long as the responsible timer is using the Swing-Thread, no side effects should occur, since afaik all modification is done in that thread.
When you close or save a project, that autosave file is deleted.
On opening a project where an autosave file exists, the program offers to open that file instead of the old one.

I know, that wouldn't help loading files destroyed by the save procedure, but at least crashed projects could be recreated.

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