What's the point of the "Apply" Button when creating events?

[Gabriot]

Seriously what the hell is the point of the stupid fucking apply button when creating events?  Doesn't Apply in most any application mean to apply the changes and SAVE them???  Well try this -- make an event, hit ok.  Now reopen the event and start creating stuff for it to do.  Now hit Apply.  SO the changes should've been applied... right!?

WRONG.  The stupid piece of shit doesn't do anything at all!  Hit cancel and see for yourself!!  The event will have nothing changed no matter how many times you hit apply.

Seriously why even have the button if it isn't going to do a damn thing.  If anyone knows of any purpose that Apply serves, please enlighten me because I'm pretty pissed that I just spent 10 minutes coming up with some awesome dialogue and now I have to redo it all.  That's 10 minutes of my life I'll never get back.  Unforgivable.

EDIT:  Okay well get this -- sometimes  it works... but STILL not the way it's SUPPOSED to!!!  If apply is actually working, then try this:
Add something new, hit apply.  Then hit cancel.  Reopen and see if it works.  Now if it did:  Delete the thing you added, hit apply, now create another line of something, but don't hit apply and hit cancel.  Reopen event, and the stuff you added after the apply is there!!!  So now cancel doesn't even fucking work right!  What the hell!!!  Did they even test this shit?

 

[eharper256]

Well, in any and all windows applications, I always view the apply button as a kind of stop-gap anyway.

Its a comfort button, something for you press until you're 100% certain, so that you can then click OK. You shouldn't neccessarily rely on it, so there's no need to get irate.

But then again, if this is the case in VX, that chalks up another reason not to use it for me; because I'm quite certain a timely Apply has saved me from an unfortunate windows hernia once with XP.

 

[RPG Hero]

adding to that, apply "applys the changes" but still lets you make some if you're not quite finished.  When you press ok, it means you are "ok" with the changes, and that you want to move on.

 

[Gabriot]

You would think... but that's definitely not how it works in VX.  I've been testing a lot of different combinations of adding stuff and using apply, ok, and cancel.  I've concluded that they severely f*cked up the functionality of the apply button.  Try it yourself, you'll find there is no consistency w/ what happens.  Sometimes it saves on apply, sometimes it doesnt.  Sometimes it even saves on hitting cancel, sometimes it doesn't.  It makes me really scared to do something, because if I hit cancel, there's not even a damn gurantee that it will cancel the changes I made...

 

[Actingman00]

It's like a save button.  If you're making a very large event then you can hit apply once in a while to save what you've done without exiting the event window.

 

[Gabriot]

It's like a save button.  If you're making a very large event then you can hit apply once in a while to save what you've done without exiting the event window.

It doesn't do that though.  I made a very large event and hit apply after many changes I was making, accidently hit cancel instead of apply once, then once I opened the event nothing was there!

 

[regi]

When you press cancel, it doesn't save the changes you made even if you hit "Apply."

There's not much point to it really other than reassuring users that their changes have been made so they can continue editing something else without having to reopen the window.

It might be an unnecessary function, but there's no need to get all worked up about it.

 

[Cruelty]

it works if you X out the window, instead of clicking cancel.

 

[Gabriot]

it works if you X out the window, instead of clicking cancel.

Interesting... So perhaps they treat the 'cancel' button as ignoring anything new you made since the last 'ok' but not the last 'apply'.

In my opinion this is stupid because honestly the apply button and okay button are both on either side of the cancel button... people are bound to accidently hit the cancel button once in a blue moon.  When I hit apply I would rather it saved the changes permanently, because it's rather annoying having to click ok and reopen the event every time to ensure that your changes are saved.  In my opinion the apply button serves no purpose then.

oh well I guess that this is something I will have to deal w/ there's no scripts that can change the stupid GUI in VX...
lock thread?

 

[Cruelty]

people are bound to accidently hit the cancel button once in a blue moon.

i've done it.

the sense of stupidity it bestows is unrivaled. :l

 

[Nachos]

"Ok" saves changes and closes the window, "Apply" saves changes but doesn't close the window

 

[regi]

"Ok" saves changes and closes the window, "Apply" saves the changes AND closes the window.

Don'cha mean, apply saves changes but doesn't close the window?

@Gabriot, we don't lock resolved threads anymore.

 

[Nachos]

Well yes, my mistake.