>Karl Becker wrote:
>
>> In fact, just storing the preferences in the same directory as the
>> stack itself helps a lot... moving the program from one computer to
>> the next is a lot easier, and you don't have to futz with a separate
>> Registry on Windows and making a text file on Mac... just have a
>> file, prefs.txt or something, that you can read any user-defined
>> preferences from.
>
>Bad idea. The reason preferences are stored in the user's preference
>folder in their system folder, is so multiple users can access the same
>application over a network without breaking each other's settings.
I knew that when I wrote that e-mail... why I still wrote that I'm
not sure why. :)
I haven't had to work with big networked programs of any sort, so I
haven't had the need (yet) for prefs file in the system folder... but
it would be VERY nice to have that command built in to MetaCard...
simply "put the prefsPath into theFilePath, put "My App Preferences"
after theFilePath" .... oooh, that's nice!
>
>(Strictly speaking, its each *machine* rather than each *user* that gets
>its own prefs, but for most Mac users this is equivalent.)
Oh, that gets me wondering... does MetaCard have any way to do
separate preferences files for multiple users in OS 9 (and then, I'm
sure, OS X) ? Being able to support multiple users would be quite a
boon to people with MC applications ("OS 9 enhanced!") .
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