Suggestion: AI to remember user's preference for Automatic

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Turn off Automatic checkbox between Reviewing and Save to KB
2. Do some adapting and close the program
3. Run the program again. Automatic comes on automatically :-(

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
For new users of AI, it would be safer if Automatic would stay off, so they 
have to check each replacement before moving on to the next word.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
AdaptIt WX 5.2.1 on Windows.

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Jim.Henderson44 on 19 Jul 2010 at 5:10

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I've thought about the proposed change to Adapt It's Automatic mode behavior. 
Bruce has not been in favor of allowing a user to accidentally set this mode 
and have it persist from session to session. He has said, "...we've 
historically resisted making this change because we ... were worried that it 
would be all to easy for someone to turn Automatic off in early training, and 
then everyone forgets (in particular, the new user forgets) that there is such 
a thing as an "Automatic" setting which he can turn on, and get more than one 
auto-insertion done at a time. ...Well, the issue has come up again and I'm 
still feeling this is too risky to comply with what Jim wants." 

I think the present behavior of reverting to Automatic for each session should 
continue for the reasons Bruce mentions, except I think we could allow an 
administrator to make the program behavior change via the Administrator menu 
(where the change would become persistent rather than via the user's action). 
To implement this we could have an item in the Administrator menu that reads 
either: "Suspend Automatic Mode" or "Start sessions with Automatic mode turned 
OFF". If we implemented the former, the program would not allow Automatic mode 
to be used at all while the "Suspend Automatic Mode" menu item is set/ticked 
(the Automatic check box would be disabled). If we implemented the later, each 
session would start with the Automatic mode turned OFF, but the mode could be 
turned on at will during a session. In either case, the responsibility for 
resulting (initial) program behavior would rest with the Administrator. I think 
I would favor the later possibility, "Start sessions with Automatic mode turned 
OFF" as an option on the Administrator menu.

Original comment by adaptitbill@gmail.com on 9 Aug 2010 at 8:36

• Changed state: NeedInfo

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