Refers bringing back a previous or older state of e.g. a website or document by reverting one or more previous actions.
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Timer for undos (aka ctrl + z for pointing devices)
We are in the middle of an endless conversation* in the office :
Should undos have a timer before disappearance or should they be displayed until next action?
In our discussion, closing or changing ...
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Time based undo/redo?
A friend of mine works on a tool allowing visually presenting ideas and she asked me how it should let users go back to any changes made previously. Firstly, I told her to just provide History and ...
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What is the best method to undo an action?
Imagine for the sake of simplicity I have a web app to-do list, where each item is a line and has a check mark near it. When the user clicks the check mark, the task is then "done" and the line fades ...
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Rationale behind not having infinite undo [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Undo History - Why limit it?
First off, this seemed like the best spot as Undo is a de facto user interface requirement for any editing program.
For school we use ...
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Multi-step undo with some actions which could not be undone
We're developing a plugin for some web-based application. Our plugin somehow enrich the functionality of the hosted application and uses some of the provided UI for certain functionality like adding ...
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How to undo a 'select all' action
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The convention for a 'Select All' checkbox is simple: if blank, click to select all. If ticked, click to de-select all.
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Designing and Implementing Undo / Item-Level Undo
I am planning adding an undo/recover mechanism to an existing application, and I am looking for ideas hwo to present it to the user under pretty ugly restrictions. I've found a few particular hints, ...
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How to protect a user from accidentally deleting/redacting when Undo isn't available yet?
The next release of our [edit: java] application will allow users to delete and redact text that they've selected, based on right clicking and choosing one of those options. Unfortunately, we haven't ...
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Undo History - Why limit it?
Why do most applications have fairly limited 'undo' history functionality?
I've been caught out on multiple occasions (granted its technically my fault) where I've needed to undo a number of changes ...
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Saving & restoring undo stack — good or bad?
In a sovereign desktop app with multi-level undo/redo (ie Photoshop, Word, etc), would being able to save and restore the undo history of a file with the file itself be a good thing or a bad thing? My ...
