general undo methods?

[MisterX]

im replying to this soon... 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Richard Gaskin
> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 06:42
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: general undo methods?
> 
> J. Landman Gay wrote:
>  > On 2/18/05 6:53 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>  >
>  >> I just spent the last two hours reading up on how undo is 
> done in  >> other systems, and it seems that there is no 
> magic panaea in any of  >> them. Good undo is simply a lot of work.
>  >>
>  >> The general method is to atomize your code so that every 
> action the  >> user can do generates undo code stored in a 
> queue, which is then  >> invoked when Undo is selected.
>  >
>  > Customers don't always understand how much work it is to 
> implement  > "undo", since virtually all software has it. To 
> them, it seems like  > it should be simple.
> 
> When we consider how far Rev has gone with the hardest part, 
> text undo, I can't help but wonder if there might be some 
> general state-recording mechanism that could be created in 
> such a way as to be scalable to address specific needs.
> 
> But I'm also sleep-deprived, and possibly dreaming...
> 
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