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Bug 409644

Summary:	Editor does not detect changes to a file and refresh the view
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Chris McGee <cbmcgee>
Component:	Editor	Assignee:	Project Inbox <orion.editor-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	mamacdon
Version:	3.0
Target Milestone:	3.0 RC2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Chris McGee

2013-05-31 21:33:05 EDT

Note that I am currently using a custom server and the problem may be in the server and not the Orion client. Here is what I have observed.

If I make a change to a file in a separate browser tab (e.g. an Orion shell command) or directly on the filesystem and I switch back to the editor tab it does not detect the fact that the file has changed forcing a refresh of the editor with the latest contents.

Every time I switch back to the Orion editor a file service call is made and the file metadata is returned (including the modstamp). It seems that everything is in place to detect a stale editor and refresh it.

Comment 1 Mark Macdonald

2013-05-31 21:50:05 EDT

Orion 3.0M2 has an Auto Load feature in the editor. It is now running on orionhub.org, so you can test it out there.

See here for details: http://planetorion.org/news/2013/05/orion-3-0-m2-new-and-noteworthy/#autosave

The Autoload/Autosve logic is purely client side, so it should just work with any filesystem implementation.