Opened 13 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
#7 closed defect (fixed)
Change text .ini to .cfg files
Reported by: | Andreas Schnellbacher | Owned by: | Andreas Schnellbacher |
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Priority: | major | Milestone: | 2.0 beta |
Component: | Other | Version: | 1.14 |
Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
The ini format doesn't allows for spaces left from the equal char.
Therefore the .ini extension should not be used for these files.
Esp. the Colors.ini file needs alignment to keep readability.
Applies to: colors.ini, alias.ini, objects.ini.
In order not to mess up user's config it's important to change it
before an official release.
Change History (8)
comment:1 by , 13 years ago
Status: | new → accepted |
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comment:2 by , 11 years ago
comment:3 by , 11 years ago
Status: | accepted → assigned |
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comment:4 by , 7 years ago
The first step was made with the release of 1.18: The import of %NEPMD_USERDIR%\bin\USER.CFG works and both files DEFAULTS.CFG and USER.CFG were automatically imported on the next EPM start if they were changed.
Adding the content of COLORS.CFG and OBJECTS.CFG to DEFAULTS.CFG also adds another requirement: A possible import process of these settings would only give usable results if settings were deleted before import.
In r2975, a function was added for that. This has to be tested and should be triggered by a pseudo setting in DEFAULTS.CFG, e.g.:
\NEPMD\User = DELETE:
When this works, the color and object settings can be moved to DEFAULTS.CFG.
comment:5 by , 7 years ago
In r3008, the last remaining .CFG file, COLORS.CFG, was moved to DEFAULTS.CFG.
Additionally to the delete-before-import option for USER.CFG, a new NEPMD.INI key has to be set on export: Install -> UserCfgJustImported = 1
. This is required for the automatic sync. in COLORS.ERX to handle sync. after import different (Cfg. to Pal.) from all other situations (Pal. to Cfg.).
comment:7 by , 6 years ago
comment:8 by , 6 years ago
Resolution: | → fixed |
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Status: | assigned → closed |
Added with r3026 and before.
In order to lower the number of config files, all these settings will be
combined to one .cfg file called NEPMD.CFG or USER.CFG. The layout will
be changed from text .ini style to settings_path = value style without
.ini sections.
The default values for it can be specified in DEFAULTS.DAT. It will be
renamed to DEFAULTS.CFG.
The contents of these two files were written to NEPMD.INI. Later a user
can add persistant settings to his NEPMD.CFG or USER.CFG that will be
written to NEPMD.INI every startup. The mechanism is similar to Mozilla
apps and prefs.js/user.js.