Opening/Saving documents

Hi, I’ve been playing around with the software and I have a couple questions.

  1. Can you only open one document at a time? It seems like every time I go to create a new doc, it wants to close the doc I already have open.

  2. When I create a new doc and save it for the first time (give it a file name, location to save) it then closes the document. Why is this? Obviously, I’ll want to save docs as I create them, but that doesn’t mean I’m done working on it. I’m just saving as I go for safety’s sake.

Thanks.

Hi @mmregan,

Presently all versions of QPrompt are limited to opening one document at a time. One inconvenient workaround to this would be to launch multiple instances of QPrompt. However, launching multiple instances of a program is only possible on Windows and Linux, but not on macOS nor Android due to limitations of those systems.

There are plans to allow opening multiple documents. A plan for opening entire folders to be specific; opening multiple documents is a pre-requirement to that. However, adding this will involve a major re-write, which is why the feature is planned for v3.0, which is very far away. I may bump it up if someone else offers to work on it before then.

This sounds like a bug and not one that I’m familiar with… If you attempted to start a new document after having started a new document and having made changes that you haven’t saved, you would be prompted with a dialog asking to Save changes to document before closing. If you proceeded to Save, your document would be saved, closed, and a blank document would proceed to be loaded, resulting in a behavior like the one you’ve experienced.

Please answer the following questions so I can best attempt to replicate your experience:

  • What steps did you take to start a new document and save it for the first time?
  • What operating system is the computer running?
  • What version of QPrompt are you using?
    You can find the version of QPrompt by going to Main Menu > About QPrompt. Provide the full version, including the contents in parenthesis, or provide a screenshot of the “About QPrompt” page that shows said information.

Please answer to the best of your habilites as that would allow me to closely replicate your issues.