[openbeos] Re: keep in mind...
- From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:11:35 -0400
Have you ever loaded and saved app configuration with flattened BMessages? It
is, literally, like 6 lines of code to set up, plus one or two for each
configuration item. It is almost as easy as you can get. I don't know how some
other API could make it any easier. Take a look at the ScreenSaver kit's
preferences app - it is a fairly good example (if I do say so myself) of how to
do this.
>providing a simple set of routines (perhaps based on attributes or flattened
>BMessages) for storing and retrieving apps configuration wouldn't be that
>hard. IMHO that's "the Be way" to do it... and it wouldn't be difficult at
>all I guess. normally there's just a bunch of modules dealing with
>preference managing in every app, changing them wouldn't be that hard.
>anyway, we should just _provide_ a standard, not _impose_ it.
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