[openbeos] Re: Preferences/File Help
- From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 19:54:59 -0500
It may be that each developer at Be did something different.
I snagged a copy of ViewIt from BeBits (http://www.bebits.com/app/315) in the
GEB's Goodies collection. The ScreenSaver preferences were all stored in a
BMessage
that was flattened. I made that work very quickly and easily. The code is
in source control (as all good should be! :-) ), at least in the preferences
app.
I liked Marco's daemon idea. It is very Be-like. But, really, if you make your
app read the preferences from a BMessage, it is very easy to deal with that
message
whether sent from an open preferences panel, or read from a flattened file.
>Hi,
>
>>OBOS could do something similar, that way, all preferences are
>>tweakable via a text file, but all applications actually write to /
>>read from that file via a single daemon interface by BMessages.
>
>This is indeed a very powerful approach. Macro N. implemented this
>once, please take a look at his work on this: http://www.xs4all.nl/
>~marcone/be.html#prefserver
>
>Regards,
>
>Ithamar.
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