new "Selective Save" dialog

[Nate_Moehring]

The "Save changes before closing?" dialog is unfriendly.  The slow-scrolling horizontal scrolling list of potentially hundreds of VIs that updated as a result of a recompile is unusable in helping to identify updates that you actually want to save, such as updates to .lvclass files as the result of adding new methods.

I'd like to have a Selective Save dialog that lists all the modified files in a single sorted column that can also be grouped by file type.  That way I can see all the .lvproj, .lvlib., .lvclass files that were modified separate from the scores of .ctl/.vi files that got updated, and by checkbox individually select all of the files I actually want to save.  Everything else should be discarded.

This Selective Save dialog should could replace the existing "Save changes before closing?" dialog AND exist as its own menu item under File > Save As.

[TurboPhil]

I think this could get merged with Jack's earlier ideas for updating the "Explain Changes" window.

Personally, my preference would be:

• When closing LV, present the "Explain Changes" dialog immediately (with enhancements Jack requested such as resizability, jump to/highlight difference, etc.)
• Add options to selectively save each item individually from that dialog
• If an item is saved from that dialog, it should be removed from the list

That way, we could get direct insight into the changes, act on the ones we care about, then ignore the rest.

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[Darren]

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