Automated setup file uploaded

[Klaus Major]

Hi Robert,

>>> 2) What should be the trigger to read external file ?  
>>> (preOpenStack in "McTools.mc" and "home" stacks?
>> "home" sounds good, since this will be loaded first anyway.
> shouldn't this be handled by prefs handler?

???

Did not know that there is a special kind of script called "pref  
handler" ;-)

Of course I meant to put whatever kind of hanlder in the  
"preopenstack" handler of the "home" stack!

>>> Or may be somebody has better idea where to save such info?
>>
>> In to the platform-specific prefs folders of course!
>>
>> Richard and I are planning to save everything that MC needs to  
>> save into an external file,
>> so no stack will have to be saved in the future.
>>
>> Mabe in some kind of XML format.
>
> I wonder whether the overhead of XML (as small as it is) is truly  
> needed for an internal data file.
> A simple token-based file would do the job and can also be versioned.

Noone would mind if YOU do the job :-)

> Robert

Regards

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