Suggest Saving Results when Entered but not Saved

[wsloand]

Occasionally when doing data entry, I will

1. Click on a point on the right panel
2. Highlight the region
3. Enter the data (field name and value)
4. Forget to click save
5. Click on the next point in the right panel
6. Lose what I just entered in step 3

It would be nice if there is a change to the field name or value if DACTYL pops up "Do you want to save this data point?" where clicking "yes" is equivalent to clicking "save" and clicking "no" is equivalent to clicking "cancel" in the data point entry area.

[roberttdev]

This one was deceptively complicated (spent 5 hours on it already), so I only implemented specifically the scenario you described. I'll need to add some extra functionality to the API (maybe another 5-10 hours) to be able to implement it all-around, so just let me know if any of that is high priority. Known issues:

• You'll get a warning if you click on the already highlighted annotation and haven't saved
• It won't throw the warning unless the editing view is open (so if you close it then change annos, there will be no warning)
• It won't throw the warning if you close the box by scrolling away so far that the page it's on is removed from the cache (this one will be tough to fix)

[wsloand]

I'm a bit surprised that it's complicated. For the moment, this can move to a lower priority, but I would like to have consistency in the interface for all methods of forgetting to save data.