resetting preferences in 7.0.1 rc4 (Windows 7)

[Bernard Devlin]

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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