Opening and Closing Workspaces with Design Pad
- Gary Cane
Design Pad G4 can only have a single workspace document open at any given time. If you would like to open a workspace document, you must first close the workspace document you are presently working with. To close a workspace, select the Close Workspace item from the File menu. If necessary, Design Pad G4 will prompt you to save changes to the workspace before closing it. Occasionally, you may be surprised that Design Pad G4 prompts you to save changes to the workspace. While you may not have made any changes to the workspace explicitly, any changes you made to the documents referenced in the workspace may alter workspace settings. One such occurence is that Design Pad promts to save the workspace when you make network configuration changes. In general, when Design Pad G4 prompts you to save changes to the workspace, you should respond affirmatively, unless you are certain that you want to discard your recent work.
When Design Pad G4 closes a workspace, it also closes all other open documents and their associated windows. If necessary, Design Pad G4 will prompt you to save any changes you may have made to a document before closing it.
To open an existing workspace, select the Open Workspace item from the File menu. Design Pad G4 will provide you with the familiar Windows Open File dialog where you can browse for the desired workspace. If a workspace is open when you attempt to open another one, Design Pad G4 will first close the open workspace (and, if necessary, prompt you to save any changes) and then prompt for the new workspace to open.
Design Pad G4 maintains a list of recently opened workspace documents in the Recent Workspaces item of the File menu. To open a recently-accessed workspace document, select the Recent Workspaces item in the File menu. A sub-menu will appear listing the four most recently opened workspace documents. If the workspace you wish to open is on the list, select it. (You can change the number of entries in the recent-file list---see section 14.1.1.)
