resetting preferences in 7.0.1 rc4 (Windows 7)

[Mike Bonner]

Interesting. In my case, its opposite. I can set motif, but when it starts
up again its back to native. (which is why I was wondering if its a setting
that isn't save)
Somewhere, if I can find it, is a preferences template file. I bet at some
point that got saved with the changes.  Either way, I wonder if you can a)
set the look and feel, then open preferences, then from the msg box save
stack "revpreferences" after you've tweaked the stuff you need to change.
Might even check to make sure the time stamp has changed.

Maybe someone else can confirm where the look and feel stuff is saved?  I'm
going to dig through things a bit more and see if I can locate it.

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Bernard Devlin <bdrunrev at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion Mike.  But that's not the problem.  I can change
> the appearance via the menu.  But such a change will not stick.
>
> I discovered that this is a preference problem because somehow LC 7.0.1 RC4
> is remembering a httpProxy setting which I set some days/weeks ago (which
> may well have been set when I was testing 7.0.1 RC3)
>
> Every time I restart RC4, the httpProxy is set back to a proxy which I no
> longer need to access.  I change that setting, restart RC4, and my
> httpProxy changes have not been saved.  Deleting the stack files in that
> folder ends up with them being recreated, presumably with the preferences
> from somewhere else.
>
> Regards, Bernard
>
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > That is not a preference that is saved, its session specific.  I looked
> at
> > the script for that menu, and the function that sets the look and feel
> (or
> > at least the one that determines which look and feel should be used, on
> > initialization) is this:
> >
> > function revThisLookAndFeel
> >    if the platform is "MacOS" then
> >       return "Macintosh"
> >    end if
> >
> >    if the platform is "Win32" then
> >       return "Windows 95"
> >    end if
> >
> >    return "Motif"
> > end revThisLookAndFeel
> >
> > Which makes me wonder if "the platform" is returning something funky on
> > your system, thereby defaulting to "motif.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Bernard Devlin <bdrunrev at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > RC4 is loading (every time) as Motif appearance on Windows 7.
> Resetting
> > > this through the menu takes effect for that session, but on restarting,
> > > this preference is not saved.
> > >
> > > Deleting the stacks here:
> > >
> > > C:\Users\<<User>>\AppData\Roaming\RunRev\Preferences
> > >
> > > just results in a new Livecode7 stack being created there.  But still
> > > changes to preferences are not saved to it.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know where Livecode is getting these preferences from?
> > >
> > > Bernard
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