[18825] in Athena Bugs
Re: Problem saving graphs in xess
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue Feb 27 16:27:00 2001
Message-Id: <200102272126.QAA12592@dit.mit.edu>
To: alex_c@MIT.EDU
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, alexp@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: "[18815] in Athena Bugs"
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:26:54 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
You report:
>The graph-saving facilities in xess are presented in a slightly
>misleading way -- if a file is saved in 'xs4' format, graphs created
>from it using the 'Graph' menu tab are saved along with it. However, if
>it it is saved in 'xls' format, such graphs are discarded, and no
>warning to this effect is given.
I verified that this does happen (indeed, not just xls but any other non-xs4
format) and reported it to the vendor. They acknowledge that this happens
and unfortunately is not changed in Xess 5 (just about to be released).
I put in a feature request that they include this clearly in the
documentation, as well as make a popup alerting users when they are about
to save a sheet with graphs in non-xs4 format (unless thay can save the
graphs in other formats, which seems unlikely in the near term according to
their tech support). I will add a warning about this to the README.athena
in the Xess lockers. Sorry for the lost work-
Alex Prengel
Academic Computing Support Team
