Bizarro behavior explained

[Robert Brenstein]

>Hi Richard and all,
>
>>Robert Brenstein wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Though only for a short while:  Klaus Major has devoted some of 
>>>>hius seemingly boundless energy to revising the preferences for 
>>>>the MC IDE so it will no longer rely on the Home stack but store 
>>>>them in Prefs (Mac) or Documents and Settings (Win) where they 
>>>>belong.
>>>>So the upside is that in the future all your IDE copies will use 
>>>>the same prefs. The downside is that it won't help you identify 
>>>>issues like this one. :)
>>>>--
>>>>  Richard Gaskin
>>>>  Fourth World Media Corporation
>>>Does that mean that one won't be able to run multiple copies of MC 
>>>each with different preferences? I sometimes run 2 or 3 copies at 
>>>the same time.
>>
>>Hmmmm....that didn't come up when Klaus was discussing it here.
>
>Yo, surprise, surprise :-)

Either I slept through it or I missed it somehow but I do not recall 
this being discussed :(

>>How many v2.6 IDEs will you be running?
>>Klaus -- feel like adding multiple support for multiple IDEs?
>
>Hm, yes, but may need some hints on how to differ between the multiple IDEs?
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Maybe adding a checkbox to the prefs stack "save prefs external"?
>This way it is up to you to use the homestack instead...

Yes, I think such a checkbox would be the simplest solution. May be 
better to have it reversed, though

  X - use preferences in home stack

Making the externally stored the default. Use applies here to reading 
and writing. The only thing to consider is what to do when user 
changes this setting. Hmm, may be just ask user what to do (retain 
currently active prefs or reload from the newly selected location)

Robert