• Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> Apr 10 2008
• Frank Benoit <keinfarbton googlemail.com> Apr 10 2008
• Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> Apr 10 2008

Is there some api in DWT for user preferences or persistent app 
settings?  Like something that would use the Windows registry under 
win32 and ~/.something files on Linux?

I was using dfl.registry for this previously.

And if not in DWT, maybe someone can recommend a small lib that would 
take care of this?  I just want to avoid re-inventing the wheel of 
trying to figure out the right platform-specific place to store such 
stuff and deciding on storage formats etc.  I don't care if it doesn't 
use the Registry on windows, but on Windows it should figure out that 
files go into %HOME% if it is set and exists and otherwise into 
c:\documents and settings\username, etc.

--bb

Bill Baxter schrieb:
 Is there some api in DWT for user preferences or persistent app 
 settings?  Like something that would use the Windows registry under 
 win32 and ~/.something files on Linux?
 
 I was using dfl.registry for this previously.
 
 And if not in DWT, maybe someone can recommend a small lib that would 
 take care of this?  I just want to avoid re-inventing the wheel of 
 trying to figure out the right platform-specific place to store such 
 stuff and deciding on storage formats etc.  I don't care if it doesn't 
 use the Registry on windows, but on Windows it should figure out that 
 files go into %HOME% if it is set and exists and otherwise into 
 c:\documents and settings\username, etc.
 
 --bb


DWT does not have anything for that.
In JFace there is the PreferenceStore and DialogSettings to store stuff 
in property files or XML files. Both do not store into the windows 
registry or have code to manage the storage location.

Frank Benoit wrote:
 Bill Baxter schrieb:
 Is there some api in DWT for user preferences or persistent app 
 settings?  Like something that would use the Windows registry under 
 win32 and ~/.something files on Linux?

 I was using dfl.registry for this previously.

 And if not in DWT, maybe someone can recommend a small lib that would 
 take care of this?  I just want to avoid re-inventing the wheel of 
 trying to figure out the right platform-specific place to store such 
 stuff and deciding on storage formats etc.  I don't care if it doesn't 
 use the Registry on windows, but on Windows it should figure out that 
 files go into %HOME% if it is set and exists and otherwise into 
 c:\documents and settings\username, etc.

 --bb


 DWT does not have anything for that.
 In JFace there is the PreferenceStore and DialogSettings to store stuff 
 in property files or XML files. Both do not store into the windows 
 registry or have code to manage the storage location.


Ok, if it doesn't do that for me, then I think I'll just cook up my own 
thing.

Which in fact, I did.  Based mostly on cashew.json.  It has some holes, 
but at least it's small code.

--bb