resetting preferences in 7.0.1 rc4 (Windows 7)

[Bernard Devlin]

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.
>
>