I would humbly suggest that this dialog should, in order of ease-to-implement<div><br></div><div>a) display the size of the file,</div><div>b) let the user know why they might not wish to proceed, and</div><div>c) give some indication of how much memory they should probably have in order to expect reasonable performance.</div> <div><br></div><div>Jake<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Robby Findler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Sure!<br> <br> Robby<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:14 AM, John Clements<br> <<a href="mailto:clements@brinckerhoff.org">clements@brinckerhoff.org</a>> wrote:<br> > I accidentally opened a sound file in DrRacket today; cue six minutes of thrashing and computer unhappiness. Would it be okay if I added a second-check dialog to DrRacket that checked the size of a file before opening it, and asked for confirmation before opening files larger than, say, 5MB?<br> ><br> > John<br> ><br> ><br> </div></div>> _________________________________________________<br> > For list-related administrative tasks:<br> > <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev</a><br> ><br> _________________________________________________<br> For list-related administrative tasks:<br> <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev</a></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>A warb degombs the brangy. Your gitch zanks and leils the warb.<br> </div>