Hi Philip. If someone is unwilling or unable to master how serialization works, I'm not sure I trust them with my registry. Would all bgt settings be in some central place?
On 11/20/11, Dennis Towne <[email protected]> wrote: > Philip, > > What good reasons do you have for encrypting a configuration file? I > figure there must be some, but it personally makes no sense to me. > > In my opinion, a user should be able to edit the application config > file as easily as possible (which usually means plain text with > limited markup or straight text key-value pairs.) Further, they > should be able to simply delete the file, or paste ten thousand lines > of garbage into it if they wish, and the application should still > start up and do its best to use defaults and ignore stuff it doesn't > understand. > > If you're encrypting the file to store passwords, you're doing it > wrong. Passwords should always be stored as a salt/hash data pair. > > Dennis Towne > > Alter Aeon MUD > http://www.alteraeon.com > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Philip Bennefall <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi Willem, >> >> The reason is mainly for convenience. Certainly you can store settings in >> encrypted files, and this is indeed possible in BGT already, but some >> people >> were a bit confused as to how to extract and interpret data again etc. >> Serialization, basically. The settings object gives you a much more >> convenient method for doing this, and it was something that a lot of >> people >> had requested. I confine the registry access to a games subkey, so it is >> not >> possible to damage unrelated data from other programs. While this >> certainly >> doesn't solve the general problem of serialization and larger quantities >> of >> data should still be stored in files, this does provide a quick and easy >> solution to store simple configuration settings. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Philip Bennefall >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Willem Venter" <[email protected]> >> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 6:34 PM >> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] More BGT news >> >> >> Hi. Why would you need to store things in the registry? Settings can >> be saved in a file and if you want data not to be altered you could >> encrypt that file, so what advantage is there to using the registry? >> Even though important keys are protected many problems can still be >> caused if keys are not removed with uninstallation and searching the >> registry can become slow if it is filled with erroneous data. >> >> On 11/20/11, Kai <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Use the "check for Updates" link in your BGT Start Menu entry. >>> >>> Kai >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "shaun everiss" <[email protected]> >>> To: "Philip Bennefall" <[email protected]>; "Gamers Discussion list" >>> <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 10:32 PM >>> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] More BGT news >>> >>> >>>> where is rev2, I can only get v1.1 installer. >>>> At 02:40 a.m. 20/11/2011 +0100, you wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> First, let me say thanks once again to all of those who sent me so much >>>>> positive feedback over the last few days since I released BGT 1.1. This >>>>> kind of stuff is what makes my work interesting, and worthwhile. >>>>> >>>>> Now, I just wanted to write and tell you that revision 2 of the engine >>>>> is >>>>> available. The reason I'm mentioning it on list is because it contains >>>>> a >>>>> feature that many of you have been wanting for a long time, namely the >>>>> ability to read and write in the registry. I have made a settings class >>>>> which wraps this up quite nicely, and prevents script kids from >>>>> tampering >>>>> with keys and values that do not concern them. >>>>> >>>>> And as usual, the revision also contains a number of bugfixes reported >>>>> by >>>>> users. >>>>> >>>>> The next major feature that will see the light of day is joystick >>>>> support. >>>>> >>>>> I have started working on this and am making good progress. 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