Editing CSS, related files requires save (cs4)

Question

You know what really Grinds My Gears? (family guy reference,
lol)
When I edit the CSS in the right hand panel, sometimes it
makes the CSS file in the Related Files toolbar not saved with a *
next to the filename. Sometimes it goes ahead and just saves the
changes right away. Like most, I'm constantly switching back/forth
between browsers so CSS has to be saved to see changes.
Kindofa pain to have to click the css file in the related
toolbar and Ctrl+S to save before each preview...I haven't been
able to find out why it "dirties" the CSS file sometimes and other
times it directly saves to the CSS file.
Does anyone have any ideas? How to get it to always just save
to the file?
thanks

Answer 1

avibodha,
Ah! Thanks for the additional details. I see what is causing
this behavior.
When a document is opened, DW determines what the Related
Files are, so
it can show the list of buttons for each one. But, for the
sake of
performance, we do not actually load the files until you
click on a
button to view a file. Note that the file may already be
loaded as a
top-level document or as a Related File of some other
document.
Since you have the "Open CSS files when modified" setting
turned off,
then the CSS gets automatically saved to disk *if* the file
has not yet
been loaded. Once the file has been loaded, then DW will not
automatically save it (to avoid writing something on disk
that you don't
want written).
So, you'll need to disable the Related Files feature to have
DW always
automatically save the CSS to disk.
HTH,
Randy
> * related files always on, open document
> * edit CSS in right panel (separate css file, not inline
styles), always saves
> immediately
> * Either click .css file and edit, or in right panel,
click Go To Code and
> edit CSS -> now all edits in right panel will happen
to file and NOT be saved.
> You must go to the .css file and Save it.
>
> So once you edit the CSS file for for any reason, from
then on it edits the
> css file when you use the right panel and you must go
back to the file and
> save, or do Save All.
>
> There is a setting in Preferences, CSS Styles to
automatically open the CSS
> file when editing, but I have that off (default state).
>
> Curious...wonder if there's a way to "reset" the right
panel CSS back to it's
> original state of directly modifying the css file? If I
close and re-open the
> document, that does it, but that's not a solution...
>
> Not a big deal because I can turn off Related Files...