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So let me get this straight here... you try to edit any of your 2 panel comics and when you update it, it saves a new one instead of updating that comic?
Yep. I just noticed that what it's doing exactly is sending me to "make" instead of "edit" when I switch it to two panels.
Unless I'm misunderstanding, NeoVid isn't, from a technical perspective, trying to edit a two-panel comic. He's trying to edit a comic that's in the system as three panels, but would be better as two. He begins by editing a three-panel comic, then, without saving anything, clicks "switch to two panel layout", which doesn't save anything about the comic that was already there -- not its number, nor even the fact that it was an existing comic that was being edited. Clicking that button always starts a new comic that will get a new ID number if it's saved.
The bottom line, I think, is that people want a way to change the number of panels in a comic while still keeping the comic's old number, thus preserving both its order in their archive, and any existing forum posts in which it's displayed. If that means they have to copy and paste everything and basically just rewrite the comic from scratch, so be it -- the ID number is what's important.
If there could be some way to ease the process of switching a comic -- an old one, or one that's still in the process of being written -- from one panel format to another, then so much the better. It's my opinion that a perfect system -- e.g. one that detected which panel of a 3-panel comic was already blank, or one that let you give complex instructions like "take the characters from panel 1 and the dialog from panel 2 and put them into the new panel 1" -- would be way too much trouble to code. Just rig up something simple like "keep the last two panels when switching from 3 panels to 2" (on the assumption that the last panel is usually, if not always, where the punchline is). Or don't. We can copy and paste with the best of them.
