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Re: Preferences!?

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Subject: Re: Preferences!?
From: Lars Jensen <larsjensen at rcn dot com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 02:31:29 -0500
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> I know that many programs have preferences that stay at the value that
> the user wants instead of reverting to the defaults. Is it possible for
> me to do this in REALBasic? If so, HOW?

It's not only possible, it's an excellent beginning project, because you can
re-use it and get the benefit in all future projects.

I use a text file in the PreferencesFolder (see that function name), for
ease of testing and debugging. If you want to see code, there's a decent
example of a Preferences module in my UTool template:

  http://ljensen.com/utool

lj
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