On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Beyond the location the most common way to store settings in Haiku is > as a dumped BMessage. There are plenty of examples in Haiku of that > being done. A decent one is the ShowImageSettings class (which frankly > could be extracted into the shared kit): Settings for device drivers and other lower level system services like this tend to use the driver settings format, as documented at http://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/DeviceDrivers_DriverSettingsAPI.html Regards, Rene