> > The only drawback is the resulting settings files are not easily > > user-editable. But this could be resolved by including a simple > > "Dumped BMessage Editor" utility for those who want to dig into > > them. > > Plus this would be a useful developer tool. I haven't searched > > BeBits > > but I suspect there is already applications like that written for > > BeOS. > > We can also use my DumpMessage()/ParseMessage() pair, it gives a text > dump of a BMessage and makes one back out of it. > Would need some fixes for robustness but it works quite well for > themes. > Hey, it should even be possible to turn it into a translator to text/x- BMessage. François.