Re: [Chainsaw]: Proposed new LogPanel preference saving structure

2003-12-18 Thread Ceki Gülcü
At 03:03 PM 12/16/2003 +1100, Paul Smith wrote: At the end of the day I have to create a text file (.properties or .xml), is there anything within the Joran package to help with the _creating_ of the XML? (Something like Betwixt but I would rather not have another dep.) Joran should be able to

[Chainsaw]: Proposed new LogPanel preference saving structure

2003-12-15 Thread Paul Smith
Currently we have the SettingsManager and associated event objects which are used to save/load Application wide events. However currently all the LogPanel settings are saved via standard Serialization. This tends to be easy to do, but brittle as we add more information to the savable entity. I

Re: [Chainsaw]: Proposed new LogPanel preference saving structure

2003-12-15 Thread Raymond DeCampo
Paul Smith wrote: Currently we have the SettingsManager and associated event objects which are used to save/load Application wide events. However currently all the LogPanel settings are saved via standard Serialization. This tends to be easy to do, but brittle as we add more information to the

Re: [Chainsaw]: Proposed new LogPanel preference saving structure

2003-12-15 Thread Paul Smith
In general, I think that xml based properties files work better in the long run rather than traditional *.properties files. The hierarchical nature of the xml file is definitely a plus. The drawback is it can be more difficult to access and set properties. Perhaps the