[PD-dev] Re: caching user settings in .pdrc

[guenter geiger]

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, cdr wrote:

> > blah blah courier is ugly but tahoma doesnt exist on linux...
> >
> > Well, it happened in a checkin by "ix9":
>
> know it sounds crazy, but a cvs admin checked it in...
> it seems CVS caches diffs in a user RCS dir on the server, if you dig
> youll see the comment was "fixed_bug_in_shell", and at the same time a
> fix was committed by someone else to externals/ggee/shell...perhaps ssh
> keys somehow facilitated this?

No idea. Seems scary to me anyhow. If you didn't check this in by accident
then something really weird has happened.

Guenter

>
> clearly the solution is to make a font selection dialog. saw some nice examples on the tcl-wiki...my question is what is the standard procedure for storing these prefs between sessions? some new delineated section in .pdrc?
>
> > I haven't tried it but I heard it was missing features. Is it an
> > optional console?
>
> if you care about adjusting scrollback maybe, couldnt get mswConsole to work on win32, and couldnt get the big box to disappear when using -stderr, but lets wait till its actually out. if those work i dont see a reason to not use it...but since they all work in matjuConsole, maybe just using that would be simpler? not my decision...
>
> was thinking a 'view' menu in the top window to invidually show/hide the console log, peak-meters, and message/gui input...and saving this state between session rather than polluting more command arguments...refer to comment above about where to store settings..
>
> _______________________________________________
> PD-dev mailing list
> PD-dev at iem.at
> http://iem.at/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pd-dev
>