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AimHere:
Just a small suggestion...

Would it be hard to add a toggle option in Preferences that would cause PVD to open with no database loaded (as opposed to always loading the last-opened database), when the program is launched from its own icon in the Start Menu?

I want to keep several databases for different purposes, and just don't want PVD to open any particular one when it's launched from the Start Menu.

Naturally, double-clicking a .PVD file (or a shortcut to one) in Windows Explorer would launch PVD with that particular database opened, as usual.

Aimhere

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---Naturally, double-clicking a .PVD file (or a shortcut to one) in Windows Explorer would launch PVD with that particular database opened, as usual.
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It seems you've answered your own question. If your "several databases" are unchanging (e.g., always the same three databases), then using a separate shortcut for each one is much faster. Opening from within the program would be preferable if the databases were changing all the time, but surely that's a very uncommon situation.

AimHere:
Sorry, I guess I'm not making myself clear. I just thought it would be good for PVD to behave like most other Windows apps in that regard, e.g. launch the program from the Start Menu (versus a document shortcut), get a "blank slate".  (Other apps also tend to have something like an "Open Recent..." item under the "File" menu, where the last several documents to be opened are listed and can be called up.)

It's a minor quibble, to be sure.

Aimhere

patch:

--- Quote from: AimHere on January 26, 2010, 04:07:06 pm ---Would it be hard to add a toggle option in Preferences that would cause PVD to open with no database loaded (as opposed to always loading the last-opened database), when the program is launched from its own icon in the Start Menu?

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+1

Agree this would decrease user confusion on which database is actually being opened. Several people I have recommended pvd to have been confused by this as users tend to make shortcuts to the program then have no idea what data is loaded.

rick.ca:

--- Quote ---Sorry, I guess I'm not making myself clear. I just thought it would be good for PVD to behave like most other Windows apps in that regard
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You were perfectly clear. I don't think the behaviour of "most other Windows apps" is appropriate for a database application like this. My personal information and media managers don't behave that way. I doubt any of their competitors do either. The vast majority of users use only one database for such things. Most of the rest would still want one loaded at startup—either the MRU, or they would create multiple shortcuts so they could choose which one to load.


--- Quote ---Several people I have recommended pvd to have been confused by this as users tend to make shortcuts to the program then have no idea what data is loaded.
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Anyone who is confused about which database is loaded when appears right in the titlebar is unlikely to be any less confused having to open one on their own.

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