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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: [Karbon14] Out of order undos, tools
From:       Dirk_Schönberger <dirk.schoenberger () sz-online ! de>
Date:       2002-09-25 12:47:15
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> > What I could think of is a "reverse" mode of a Tool. In this the "do"
and
> > "undo" functionalities are reversed. You can add such a "reverse" action
to
> > your normal command history.
> > I think this way you could have out-of-order undos without having to
change
> > the
> > command list, don't you?

> I like the way Photoshop has this. (last I tried was 5)

> It has a list of actions; a history-tool. You can click an action and your
> document state will be returned to how it was at that time, I.e. all
actions
> after that date were un-done.

> I don't see the need to undo one action and not some actions later in the
> action chain, if only because it would render wierd results and confuse
> users.

> Pressing undo simply shows the last action grayed out. Pressing undo again
> grays out another and pressing redo enables it again. So its nothing more
> then a visualisation tool of the undo-redo commands. Which is something
more
> then karbon can make use off :)

I haven't seen the Photoshop UI, but such a behaviour would make sense to
me.

Dirk


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