improve confirmation screen when closing add dialog

[dae]

Yes/no buttons would be clearer as eg. "Discard" and "Keep Editing", and the prompt will probably need to be changed to something like "Discard current input?". This will probably require adding some new translation strings.

https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/saving-changes-to-evaluation-exit/25546

[chezfo]

It is important.

I also suggest turning the question around. Instead of "whether to throw away" the question should be "whether to keep". When the answer is "yes". Save and take you out of the editor. (and won't bring you back to save...)

https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/saving-changes-to-evaluation-exit/25546?u=noty

[dae]

The user has issued a close action, so I think focusing on what will happen if they proceed (i.e. discard) makes more sense than talking about 'keep'ing.

When we tackle this, we might want to change the default button too: https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/close-and-lose-current-input-default-option-yes/38011

[chezfo]

You can make three options as in Word, and other software

1. Save 2. Do not save 3. Cancel and return to editing.

[dae]

Sorry, I don't really see the value in that. "Save" in this context means "Add", and I don't think users are typically going to add a card immediately after they've tried to close the window. Some way of saving a draft would be nice in the future, but that's a separate feature request.

[chezfo]

Now I realized the mistake...
There is no disagreement between us!
It's just that we're talking about two different dialog boxes...
Are you talking about an "add" dialog?
And I'm talking about a card template editing dialog box... 😃😃
Maybe you should open a new topic about it...

I'm talking about an evaluative exit. When editing an existing card template.
When you spend a lot of time editing, you don't always remember that the edit is not saved automatically and you have to click save.
This problem didn't start with Anki. It is found in every word processor, or graphics editor.
In all the programs I know, the program offers the option of saving or discarding, or returning to editing.

• word and all office applications
• PDF-XC
• acrobat adobe
• ABBYY FineReader
• VScode

and many other programs. So I see no reason why Enki would behave differently.
Anyway from your response I understand that we are not talking about the same dialog box. That's why I'm attaching a picture.

[dae]

I'm sorry, I incorrectly assumed you were talking about the Add screen, and it looks like that screen already defaults to 'no'.

For the card types screen, I don't have strong feelings about a save button. The only argument against it I can think of is that it possibly conditions the user to hit esc when they want to save (which could result in lost work in other screens). But it's not a strong argument.