Quote:Mark -
If it's something I said - or the way I said it - then I apologize most sincerely.
No apology necessary. I am not angry - though I must say that calling Sesame's reports "droppings" (especially in the title of your post) was pretty upsetting.
Quote:But this is not a "trivial" matter to me. I do not know of any other program that automatically saves reports that I either preview or print.
I meant that it is trivially easy to delete them - not that the issue was somehow trivial. Your OS is built for file management. It provides countless tools to help you manage your files. Sesame deletes no files whatsoever. Nor is meant to be a substitute for an OS.
Quote:In any event, if you feel it is important that the report be saved - for those people who might want it - then how about an "option" of whether the report is saved ("retained" in file) or not? That would be much more convenient for me, at least - and I would imagine for some other users as well.
It isn't merely a human issue. Sesame has no way of telling whether you are done with that file. For example, lets say you are previewing a report. Sesame generates the file and then launches your browser. Your browser then opens that file, and Sesame goes on operating. How can Sesame tell that you are done in your browser? You may well stay in the browser well after exiting Sesame. Sesame could, inadvertently, delete the file while it is still in use. To determine if you are done, Sesame would have to wait till the browser task is finished, meaning you couldn't look at reports and use Sesame at the same time, nor look at reports side by side. But even if we did wait till the browser finished, what if you wanted to include that report in MSWord, Excel, Access, OpenOffice, or any the other countless applications that can use HTML? So you leave the browser to start up Access (or whatever), and in the meantime Sesame deletes your report.
Generated reports are documents. What you choose to do with the document (print it, preview it, delete it, archive it, use it in a larger document, mount it on the web, rename it, send it via email, extract from it, convert it to XML, etc...) is up to you. It is not some kind of temporary file that Sesame keeps around.
If you are absolutely certain that you have no use for reports after you exit Sesame, start sesame in a batch file with the commands to delete the reports after Sesame exits, then put that batch file as the "target" in your Sesame icon. That way, everytime you exit Sesame, the batch file will delete the .htm files.
Something like:
c:\Sesame\Program\sesame
del c:\Sesame\Data\*.htm