Bizarro behavior explained

[Klaus Major]

Hi Robert,

>> 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 :(

Well, maybe not explicitely ;-)

>>> 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)

OK, i will think this over...

Any hints?

> Robert

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de