[openbeos] Re: XML & OpenBeOS
- From: "Mikael J." <tic_khr@xxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 17:47:39 +0100
>
>Seriously. Think about it. Your preferences app (if it is external)
will need to
>send your app a message (if it is running) so that you can have live
preference
>updating. So Be just called archive and wrote the message to disk. That
is what
>all of the files in ~/config/settings are. There is a tool on BeBits
(GEB's gadget or
>some such - search for BMessage) that will let you view arbitrary
BMessages
>saved to disk by dragging and droping the settings file on the ViewIt
app.
>Allowed me to easily reverse engineer most of the screensaver settings.
>
The problem is rather that we want a standardized way to store the
settings; the format isn't really that important.
The Settings class JBQ wrote worked just like that - a BMessage with
some extra functions added for easily saving/loading settings files,
based on the application signature and an optional sub directory.
So - just come up with an API that's *easy* to use (BMessage-style seems
like a good idea), then worry about the actual implementation.
I've used Python a lot, which comes with quite a few modules for stuff
like that - might want to take a look at those?
Regards,
--
Mikael J @ http://hem.spray.se/tic_khr
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