Bizarro behavior explained

[Richard Gaskin]

Klaus Major wrote:
> 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 :-)
> 
>> 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...

I wonder if the prefs stack could have the option of saving for global 
use or saving for a specific version of the engine.

It wouldn't be too hard to use different custompropertysets for each 
version, with the default propertyset for "all".

That would give Robert what he's looking for while still liberating the 
IDE from dependency on the going-away-someday-anyway Home stack.

-- 
  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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