resetting preferences in 7.0.1 rc4 (Windows 7)

Mike Bonner bonnmike at gmail.com
Mon Dec 29 19:50:22 EST 2014


Oh, I'm on win7 64 bit. If you're on 95, the behavior would differ.  It
would try to set to appearance manager (most likely) then shift to windows
95. Wish I had more os's around here to experiment with.

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can't test on 7.0.1 stable, but on rc4 it has an affect. in rc4 from the
> menu, it does appear to work for me, setting back to the native appearance
> manager look.
>
> I looked at this though:
> The "Appearance Manager" option can be used only on Windows XP, Mac OS and
> OS X systems. If you set the lookAndFeel to "Appearance Manager" on a Unix
>  system, it is reset to "Motif". Similarly, tf you set the lookAndFeel to
> "Appearance Manager" on a pre-Windows XP system, it is reset to "Wondows
> 95".
>
> It is still behaving as if the engine doesn't think you're on windows.
> Since you can set it, and it is then "reset", somewhere in there it must be
> checking the platform and failing.  At this point, since you checked the
> platform from the msg box, I have NO idea why it might be doing that.  So
> color me stumped.
>
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Bernard Devlin <bdrunrev at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The suggestion about a system proxy was a good one!
>>
>> That proxy was disabled on a system-wide basis on Windows; the values for
>> the proxy were still in the boxes (but grayed-out).  It appears all the
>> browsers were ignoring these values, as the Internet Options said to not
>> use a proxy.  Livecode seemed to get that value still.  After setting that
>> to empty on a system-wide basis, then saving revPreferences, the proxy
>> value is now empty in LC across restarts.
>>
>> Alas the lookAndFeel is still not working.  I took your suggestion
>> seriously, and did a restart. But still no change on this front.
>>
>> If I put the platform, it is "Win32".  If I change the lookAndFeel through
>> the menu, then the lookAndFeel reports "Windows 95".  But this does not
>> persist across restarts.  You may be right, that the lookAndFeel is not
>> saved with revPreferences.  But then the conundrum is why this would look
>> like "Motif" by default, whereas on LC 6.7 and earlier it correctly stays
>> as "Windows 95"
>>
>> Incidentally, do you find that clicking the "native theme" on the View
>> menu
>> has any effect, i.e if you choose "Motif", then after that choose "Native
>> Theme", does it display the appropriate appearance for your platform?
>> When
>> I try this on 6.7 and 7.0.1, it changes nothing.
>>
>> Bernard
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Reading up on some stuff. You might check to make sure that windows
>> itself
>> > doesn't have a stuck proxy setting (not likely, since you'd notice it
>> > elsewhere, but worth a check) because liburl will use the windows
>> setting
>> > of it isn't set specifically with code.  At least it's something to
>> > eliminate.  Might also (if you didn't) confirm that "the platform" does
>> > indeed return win32 to eliminate that also.  I haven't yet found where
>> the
>> > "lookandfeel" is stored if at all, doesn't look like it is so far,
>> hence my
>> > re-asking about the platform. I looked at what the menu selection does,
>> and
>> > it appears that all it does is "set the lookandfeel to ..whatever" but
>> > there could be a setprop somewhere that I haven't found yet.
>> >
>> > Worst case (I know its a pain) setup a plugin that sets the lookandfeel
>> to
>> > "appearance manager" as well as setting the proxy to empty.
>> >
>> > Another silly thought, but.. this is windows.  Have you restarted
>> lately?
>> > About out of ideas, but i'll keep poking around and maybe get lucky.
>> >
>> >
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