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From: eric@cbmvax.UUCP (Eric Cotton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mymenu, ET and SF!
Message-ID: <8252@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 89 19:50:48 GMT
References: <2259@nigel.udel.EDU> <7289@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> <20763@usc.edu> <165@ra.abo.fi>
Reply-To: eric@cbmvax.UUCP (Eric Cotton)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <165@ra.abo.fi> rosenber@ra.abo.fi (Robin Rosenberg INF) writes:
>Proposition: There is a program for setting preferences: Preferences. Setting
>the preferences from another program is like things behind the users' 
>back. AtalkIII (or any other program that needs saving preferences) should
>have its OWN configuration file. It may accept default settings from 
>preferences but it should DEFINITELY NOT change the preferences. Saying MyMenu
>is a kludge is no excuse for a badly behaved program. And that other programs
>do the same misstake is no excuse either. I cannot swear on it, but I think
>MyMenu has to be a kludge with the current OS version.
>
>  Back to preferences: The RKM says you shouldn't do SetPrefs() since that is
>pulling the rug from beneath the users feet. Now we see what happens. (It 
>seems ATalk has its kludges too...)

Agreed on all counts.  SetPrefs() was originally intended to be Intuition
private.  Notice that there is no mention of this function in the Addison-
Wesley AMIGA Intuition Reference Manual.  Since it *is* documented in the
ROM KERNEL manual, the secrets out.  I would, however, recommend that
you avoid using SetPrefs() for the reasons Robin gave above.  All you forward-
thinkers (1.4) might want to avoid the function too (hint, hint).
-- 
Eric Cotton
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