Josh Phillips wrote:
My trouble with the current implementation of the properties file is
understanding the code that creates them. perhaps its my inexperience
but it seems to be pretty complex, and the way SciTE uses them for
preferences/settings is, to me, pretty unintuitive.
Maybe I'll look more into how properties are handled, but my first
looks at them left me pretty lost.
My take on the Scintilla "properties" functionality is that it is
fairly simple - just read the ScintillaDoc.html entries on
SCI_SETPROPERTY and SCI_GETPROPERTY*. Straightforward and not very trick.
OTOH (I trust Neil will set me straight if I get this too far wrong),
SciTE's usage of the properties system gets a lot trickier,
particularly as regards setting them (using "funny" keys)... but you
do not need to let that stuff scare you off if you just want a simple
way of setting and retrieving key-value pairs. :)
Simple persistence is... simple. On the input side, just read a set
of key-value pairs, one per line, separated by "=" and do a
SCI_SETPROPERTY call. For output, just do SCI_GETPROPERTY calls for
each of the key-value pairs you want to persist, and write them in the
format expected by the input side.
Robert Roessler
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