>While this is all great for the future - > >What are we going to do about writing compatiable preference save files >for R5? > >It will mean that the OpenBeOS preference panels won't be swap-able with >the BeOS R5 ones - something that I would have liked to have happen. > >Thanks > >Andrew Edward McCall >mccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >-- >OpenBeOS - Join the revolution NOW!! >http://www.openbeos.org/ We do what Michael has already said - use BMessages. While it *is* true that the preferences apps will not be able to read the settings files, everything else will be compatible. IOW, how they communicate with the system is the same, even if how they save things isn't. --DarkWyrm