Dialog boxes open and immediately close

[John Bowling]

In 5.4.4.

With Stage Lock ON:

Selecting Stage > Add Shared Copy opens and immediately closes the Stage Name dialog box. In the box the new default name "Shared ..." is visible and that is saved as the new Stage name. Immediately after, the "Stage Name is Required!" error box results.

Occasionally, File > Save As also opens and immediately closes the Save As (file explorer) dialog box, not allowing entry (and effectively saving over the current file with current name). I think I've observed this with Stage Lock ON as well, but am having trouble replicating just now.

Of these, the latter is more frustrating and unfortunately less repeatable, but they seem related.

[John Bowling]

Turning Notify me of replies on.

[Martin Griffith]

Hi John, I'll have a look at this today. A problem we have is that we have to unlock the stage to save the model or to create a new stage. We introduced code to re-lock the stage afterwards (rather than leaving it to the user to remember), but it appears to be causing problems here. Will keep you posted.

[John Bowling]

I also suspect that's the case! Thanks for investigating.

[Martin Griffith]

Hi John, 

there is a new version of Ventsim, 5.4.4.3, available here: https://ventsim.com/download/minor-releases/

This should remove the problems you originally reported. 

In this latest version, if you save your file while the Stage Lock is on, the model will be re-StageLocked after the save is complete. However, when the stage is unlocked at the time you save, there will be no report of airways that have changed, as there is if you unlock the stage yourself the normal way. When you later unlock the stage yourself, the message showing changes will only show changes going back to when you saved. 

We want to think more about this and improve it in a future version. Will keep you posted.