> Makes sense. But even if you don't migrate the preferences backwards,
> shouldn't the older preferences stay the same? Not a major issue, just a
> curisoity question.
For background, let me first explain what's going on here. In Poser 3.0a6 and
earlier, the serial port setting was saved as a single entry in the preferences
file. For example:
CommPort=COM2
For Poser 3.0a7, I changed this to an array of entries in order to support
things like devices with multiple serial ports (note, this is NOT a new product
announcement...I'm just trying to anticipate possibilities in order to minimize
disruption later). For example:
CommPortList[0]=COM2
When converting the single entry to an array, I tried adding code to fill the
first element of the array with the old preference setting. So when moving to
Poser 3.0a7, you should still see that setting.
However, in that conversion, I get rid of the old single-entry serial port
preference. I don't like my preference files full of old, obsolete entries. So
when you run Poser 3.0a6, it doesn't find that entry, nor does it know how to
deal with the array of entries. So not only does it not migrate backwards the
serial port information, but it also takes the step of deleting the array of
entries that Poser 3.0a7 created! In general Poser always deletes preference
entries that it doesn't know about.
-- Keith Rollin
-- Palm OS Emulator engineer
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