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Redo stands for a command that reverses the undo or advances the buffer to a more current state.

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Best practice - undo vs redo

I'm building mockups for a site, where users can edit profile info, etcetera. After they submit the change, they get a green success message at top of screen, with an button option to undo their ...
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Undo-Redo for sections not visible to the user

In a multi-step task-based UI, imagine the flow below - User adds a task and a panel opens up to fill in the task details User fills the details and saves the task User closes this add-on panel User ...
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A text editor with undo functionality inside an visual editor with undo functionality

So i am working on an editor where you can create text items. When i create a text item it is accompanied by a text editor. At the moment they both have their own undo chains. This is because the text ...
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Why are the "Undo" and "Redo" arrow icons commonly round?

A simple Google Image search will show a lot of icons related to "Undo & Redo", and interestingly, most of them, if not all are round. Take a look at the ones Microsoft Office uses: And some ...
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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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