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<div><i>>What are the practical problems with using the current </i></div>
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<div>I don't know, I'm a windows user, and think that the linux .pdsettings will be a better substitute for the actual windows method of writing in the registry. And think that it should live on the pd/bin dir & not in a user dir. to disallow sharing prefs.
on multiple installations. (Pd, Purr-Data, PsVST)</div>
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<div>If is needed to hold different fonts-metrics there could be a separete file just for that, or it can be stored in the actual file format. </div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 20, 2017 1:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Lucas Cordiviola; pd-list@lists.iem.at<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [PD] (wip) Preferences file.</font>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27749">Benefit: there would be a single <br>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27748">Cost:</div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27937">* currently the only platform that uses xml for
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_28024">preferences is OSX, and Pd relies on its proprietary,
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_28025">non-portable tool in order to read and save this file.
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27747">So it would be necessary to write an XML parser for
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27746">reading and writing in Pd, or bring in an XML library
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<div dir="ltr">as a dependency.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27657">* can't leverage any of Pd's current parsers or
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27910">use them as a guide. For example, the Pd
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27909">message parser splits tokens on spaces-- the
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_28191">XML preferences file below doesn't fit that
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_28192">pattern-- the pd parser would interpret that first
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_28193">line as a single symbol atom.</div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_28194">* the linux preferences file has long-standing code
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_29383">in Pd for reading/writing preference files. That would
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_29384">be thrown out to create a newer one that
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_29444">is more difficult to implement.<br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27652" dir="ltr">* without nested tags we lose most of
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_30869">the power that XML would have provided. (For example,
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_30870">nested tags to make the values in "fontmetrics" self
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_30871">documenting.)<br>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_31146">What are the practical problems with using the current
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_31271">-Jonathan<br>
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