Re: Preferences!?

[Tristan <tornado at athenet dot net>]

Just on Mac OS X.
All that tells me is how to get a Save or open dialog and open or save.
Can't my program do this internally?

On Mar 29, 2005, at 8:21 PM, Paul Goodrich wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You didn't mention what platform.  Typically on Mac you would store it 
> in
> either an XML plist file or a binary prefs file.  Check out the info 
> for
> Working with files in the user's guide. You may want to go through the
> tutorials as they cover opening and saving files too.
>
> On Windows you can also look at the Registry classes as this is a 
> typical
> method of storing and retrieving prefs on Windows, actually it is the
> recommended way.  It is pretty easy too as you don't need a folder 
> item or
> any file I/O.  Although I don't think the LR has an example.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul
>
> on 3/29/05 3:37 PM, Tristan wrote:
>
> > 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?
> >
> > Thx,
> > Tbg10101
> >
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