New prefs scheme for MC

[Klaus Major]

Hi Richard, Dave and all,

i changed the subject a bit :-)

> On 9 Feb 2005, at 21:30, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>> On 2/8/05 7:23 AM, Klaus Major wrote:
>>>> We wait until the "Home" stack is no longer necessary as Richard 
>>>> predicted ;-)
>>> I must have missed something along the line -- why/when/how are we 
>>> not going to need a Home stack?
>>
>> Of course some Home stack or another will still be need to be present 
>> for licensing, but the one we're all currently will need to be 
>> replaced at some point with the next license change so any changes 
>> you might have made to it now will be lost at that time.
>>
>> Also, once FlipsIDE goes final there may be some who prefer the 
>> simpler setup and since it runs MC with Rev's license stack

Oh, i think this fact is a bit more important than to get to know about 
it "en passant"! ;-)

Anyway, good to know!

>> it may not be wise to store custom props there, since we can't rely 
>> on any features of other people's stuff remaining in place 
>> indefinitely.
>>
>> The upside for what Klaus is working on is that it's generally 
>> considered the right thing to do:  both HIGs strongly suggest it, and 
>> in circumstances where the current user may not be an administrator 
>> it may be the only way to have prefs stored reliably between 
>> sessions.
>>
> I wonder if HIGs should apply to development tools in the same way 
> they apply to applications. Like Robert, I keep various versions of 
> both MC and Rev on my hard drives. And sometimes multiple copies of 
> the same version, for example when messing about with the IDE. So even 
> keeping separate prefs by version wouldn't always work. And when 
> testing alpha/beta versions, I'd be worried what was being saved to a 
> non-local prefs file. So please give the option to save prefs locally 
> in the app folder.

Makes sense...

Maybe i could check the "mcversion" of stack "mctools" to differ 
between the
different IDEs?

Any caveats/downsides ?

> The administrator rights issue is one reason I generally keep MC and 
> Rev out of the Applications or Program Files folders and put them 
> somewhere in user space. Perhaps not so convenient for multi-user 
> machines though.

But please remember that a new solution WILL require to change your 
HOME stack(s),
since the prefs a read/set in its "preopenstack" handler (of cd 1)!

I think most of you modified HOME to your needs like i did...
So should i move this to the "mctools stack?

Are there any downsides to read/set the prefs NOT when the home stacks 
opens?

Would you prefer a simple text file or a stack to save the prefs in?

> Cheers
> Dave
>
> PS
> Looking forward to FLIPSide.
> Looking forward to seeing Klaus dance again.

Hey, shake your booty! :-D
Thank you very much for liking my "engine-impersonating artistic dance 
performance"!

(Yes, there HAVE been some really startling moments on the ERC in 
Malta! ;-)


Regards

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