This might be completely off, but I remember browsing through the sample code, and seeing a directory abt a pref server or something to do with prefs... Has anyone checked this out? On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, DarkWyrm wrote: > >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 > > >