Hello Mary,
Sunday, June 4, 2006, 1:24:02 PM, you wrote:
> Understandable. Most of the discussion on TBOT of the files and
> folders in Images came as a result of the testing going on there of
> the pcwsmiley code Leif was writing. In the process, at some point
> he told us we could delete Order Text.
Ughhhh. I very vaguely recall saying something to that effect.
Here's what I remember:
The order.txt was needed because we were attempting to set up multiple
.MSL files (there was only one at the time). So initially, it would
read a .MSL into memory, then read the next one it found and append it
to the one in memory and so on. What happened was that if you had two
handles that were identical in two different .MSL files, then
whichever was loaded later would take precedence.
We decided on order.txt so that the user could control which .MSL had
the highest priority when it came to conflicting handles (rather than
the filesystem determining load order).
Now this is where it gets fuzzy. I don't recall us ever coming up
with a workaround outside of order.txt. So long as you don't have
conflicting handles, order.txt is irrelevant.
It'd be easy to test. Create two .MSL files and assign two different
pics to the same handle in each .MSL and put the MSL files in
order.txt. Start up TB and see which image shows. Then close out of
TB, change the order of the two in order.txt and start up TB again to
see what happens.
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