<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Thanks for explanations, sorry if I missed that.<br></div><br></div><div>The fact is that the current behavior leads to some confusion, as you know (e.g change "temporarily" the audio device, then open startup dialog, click OK, and voila, the audio device is saved...).<br></div>So I see mainly 2 options that would fix that:<br></div><br></div><div>- saving settings to different files: general/audio/midi<br></div>- caching audio and midi settings from initial prefs file reading, and overriding them only when "save audio settings" or "save midi settings" are triggered<br></div><br>#2 is better I guess...<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> Antoine Rousseau </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">  <a href="http://metalu.net" target="_blank">http://www.metalu.net</a> __ <a href="http://www.metaluachahuter.com/compagnies/al1-ant1/" target="_blank">http://www.metaluachahuter.com/</a><br><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-12-27 19:14 GMT+01:00 Dan Wilcox <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danomatika@gmail.com" target="_blank">danomatika@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">In that case,<span class=""><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite">- Audio and Midi could do as well, instead of their current "Save all<br>settings" buttons</blockquote></div><div><br></div></span><div>I felt that way too but, as Miller pointed out, what happens when you use different hot pluggable sound devices? You wouldn't necessarily *want* to save a temporary device each time, that plus the GUI freezes for a bit when you save the preferences. I did enable auto saving for this dialog but it was *pretty* annoying to wait every time you close it.</div><div><br></div><div>There are definitely some things to fix regarding consistency, but there are still a few reasons why they don't quite match completely.</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 27, 2017, at 6:36 PM, Antoine Rousseau <<a href="mailto:antoine@metalu.net" target="_blank">antoine@metalu.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_8102306194559703353Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">IMO the startup flags like this should *not* be saved</blockquote><div><br></div><div>of course I agree with <a href="https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/153" target="_blank">https://github.com/pure-data/<wbr>pure-data/pull/153<br></a></div><div>However I was referring to another "issue", which is about auto-saving behaviour of (only) some dialogs.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_8102306194559703353gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> Antoine Rousseau </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">  <a href="http://metalu.net/" target="_blank">http://www.metalu.net</a> __ <a href="http://www.metaluachahuter.com/compagnies/al1-ant1/" target="_blank">htt<wbr>p://www.metaluachahuter.com/</a><br><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-12-27 18:00 GMT+01:00 Dan Wilcox <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danomatika@gmail.com" target="_blank">danomatika@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>IMO the startup flags like this should *not* be saved or be added to the existing settings when saving. They should only act as overrides to the settings. This is true for a number of flags such as -path for which I have a fix on Github: <a href="https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/153" target="_blank">https://github.com/pur<wbr>e-data/pure-data/pull/153</a><div><div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 27, 2017, at 12:00 PM, <a href="mailto:pd-list-request@lists.iem.at" target="_blank">pd-list-request@lists.iem.at</a> wrote:</div><br class="m_8102306194559703353gmail-m_-1589902151132323097Apple-interchange-newline"><div><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline">From: Antoine Rousseau <</span><a href="mailto:antoine@metalu.net" style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">antoine@metalu.net</a><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline">></span><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline">To: Alexandros <</span><a href="mailto:adrcki@gmail.com" style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">adrcki@gmail.com</a><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline">></span><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline">Cc: Dan Wilcox <</span><a href="mailto:danomatika@gmail.com" style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">danomatika@gmail.com</a><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline">>, Pd-List <</span><a href="mailto:pd-list@lists.iem.at" style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">pd-list@lists.iem.at</a><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline">></span><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline">Subject: Re: [PD] How to get off verbose mode?</span><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline">Message-ID:</span><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span class="m_8102306194559703353gmail-m_-1589902151132323097Apple-tab-span" style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;word-spacing:0px">      </span><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline"><</span><a href="mailto:CAOCG5Hy_ubfh3JSKUUJqSChdJHNvGaZHj6eDd425YjbXbMp-Bw@mail.gmail.com" style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">CAOCG5Hy_ubfh3JSKUUJqSChdJHNv<wbr>GaZHj6eDd425YjbXbMp-Bw@mail.<wbr>gmail.com</a><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline">></span><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"</span><span class="m_8102306194559703353gmail-"><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br>Setting the -verbose flag adds it to the startup flags and if you *save*<br>the settings the flag is saved as well<br></blockquote><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline">In fact, on Linux at least, you don't even need to *save* the settings:</span><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline">clicking "Apply" or "OK" buttons of Path and Startup dialogs "auto"-saves</span><br style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Monaco;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline">(all) the settings.</spa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