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(Beta 1.05) Tutorial is no longer accessible after closing and reopening Midinous for the first time #3

Closed worblyhead closed 1 year ago

worblyhead commented 1 year ago

I just setup Midinous to run from the Beta 1.05 codebase and noticed the following:

1) Launch Midinous and NOTE intro splash page 2) Click Launch Tutorial and NOTE that the tutorial opens as expected. 3) Close Midinous and reopen. NOTE that the intro splash page is no longer available and there is no visible way of relaunching the tutorial.

FWIW, I am running on Win10.

Nornec commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the report! This is expected behavior. Once the welcome screen comes up (once per new version), it won't come up again. There's a flag in the code that is set to true (do_not_welcome) after the first open after an update.

Do you have any suggestions to make this feature better or more clear?

worblyhead commented 1 year ago

Most applications that launch with splash screens have a checkbox that allows users to specify whether they want to see said dialog when the application is launched again in the future. For this case, not sure if the added complexity of the checkbox is worth the off chance that someone needs to go through the tutorial multiple times. Maybe if the tutorial could be reached via File > Open then that would suffice.

worblyhead commented 1 year ago

Another quick "workaround" is simply to File > Save As > MyFile to persist the tutorial easily between sessions. However, a user runs the risk of dirtying and saving edits to that file and losing the tutorial until the next update/install.

Nornec commented 1 year ago

Yeah this is why the tutorial is "protected", i.e. in a different directory than the user directory, so that it doesn't get overwritten, but there's no point if people can't reach the tutorial again. So, I think I'll do what you suggest and move the do_not_welcome flag to a check box on the welcome screen.

Nornec commented 1 year ago

A "Don't show again" button was added to the welcome menu. This can be turned back on now within the options menu. The next release will contain this change.