Re: [ethereal-dev] "Save" vs. "Save As"

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> So I'll assume the NetMon guys didn't read that (the copy of *The
> Windows Interface: An Application Design Guide* I have doesn't seem to
> say what "Save As" should do, so maybe Microsoft doesn't think it needs
> to be standardized), and ignore them, and have "Save As" make the new
> file name be the current file name.

Hmm.

NetMon lets you, on a "Save As", write out only *some* of the packets -
you can either have it write out only those packets selected by the
display filter, or write out a range of packets (packets M through N).

Making the target of the "Save As" be the current file would seem to
imply that you would then have only the packets you saved, which isn't
necessarily what the person who did a partial "Save As" wanted.

We might also want to offer the ability to do those sorts of partial
saves; if so, we might not want "Save As" to make the saved-to file the
current file.

(I.e., they may have had a good reason to violate the common UI standard
that says "Save As" should make the saved-to file the current file.)