Re: [Summary-Talk] Incremental config lockdown

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I will add your request to our wish list.

One possible work around would be to keep a second copy of Summary with
the same configuration except for incremental turned off and no log
files. Then you can make configuration changes to that version and
transfer them to the "real" copy. There is still a manual step of
editing the configuration file, but you can do the config in the GUI and
then simply copy over the changes to the other summary.conf file.

Note: On the Windows version you need to quit Summary before making
changes directly to the configuration file and launch it again after.
This is not needed on the other platforms (at least in version 2.6 or
newer).

Jason


Richard McLean wrote:
> I realise that the GUI is locked to "idiot-proof" the process, but is 
> there any chance of having an option added to unlock it? Perhaps via a
> switch in the config file itself, rather than in the GUI, or in the GUI 
> with a couple of "Are you sure?" "Are you really sure?" dialogs that 
> spell out that it's not recommended to make changes to incremental
> configurations? Or even an "Unlock this page" button to enable it on
> group of settings at a time?

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