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Use the title bar's document icon to check saved status
Authored by: osxpounder on Feb 16, '07 12:15:02PM

Like Rob, I usually glance at the little red window-closing widget in the top left corner of OSX windows, because a "black dot" can be seen there for any unsaved file [at least, that's how it should be on OSX]. You even see the black dot if the app is in the background [not in focus].

Some apps that are cross platform do something similar, instead [or in addition to the black dot]: they add a space and an asterisk [*] to the name in the title bar when a file has unsaved changes. That's also good, because you can see that even when the app's in the background, and it works for apps that have tabbed windows or something similar that would prevent the window's red widget from showing the status of multiple files.



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Use the title bar's document icon to check saved status
Authored by: qwerty denzel on Feb 16, '07 01:23:50PM

In the list of windows in an App's 'Window' menu, all documents which are unsaved have a bullet beside their name. Minimized windows gain a diamond, and the currently active document, of course, gets a tick.



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Use the title bar's document icon to check saved status
Authored by: osxpounder on Feb 22, '07 12:34:05PM

For some, the "tick" is also known as a "check mark".



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Use the title bar's document icon to check saved status
Authored by: qwerty denzel on Feb 16, '07 01:36:34PM
Also, Xcode, which is the only Apple app I can think of that has something like tabs for navigating editable documents, darkens the icon of any unsaved file in its 'Groups & Files' list.

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