Re: [Gtkpod-devel] Re: [Gtkpod-devel] Sort Tabs Idea

[Jorg S. <Jor...@gm...>]

Hi James,

good to see you back...

> I think redoing the whole format of the prefrences file was too extreme
> anyway.

Well, if someone comes up with an extremely better way I would definitely be
for it...

> I figured that it's a better
> idea to work with numbered pref keys instead of just getting rid of
> them. My hiatus from this did allow me to come up with an idea to make
> numbered prefs work with the new prefs interface I've been working on. I
> thought that the prefs functions that I was working with
> (prefs_get_int_value, prefs_set_int_value, etc) might work if we had
> them deal with numbered keys (i.e. the special sort tab keys)
> internally. For example, take the current prototype of prefs_get_int:
> 
> gboolean prefs_get_int_value (const gchar *key, gint *value);
> 
> I had the idea to add another parameter to these functions, which for
> now i'm calling key_number. This parameter specifies the number suffix
> of a pref key (if there is one) The new prototype could look like this:
> 
> gboolean prefs_get_int_value (const gchar *key, gint key_number, gint
> *value);

I would make another set of functions for numbered prefs -- no need to give
out a key_number for non-numbered prefs.

gboolean prefs_get_int_value_index (const gchar *key, gint key_number, gint
*value)

would then simply be a front-end to the existing

gboolean prefs_get_int_value (const gchar *key, gint *value).

> prefs_get_string("mountpoint", -1)
> 
> Where we have a the key name, and any negative number for a key number,
> so that the function would know it's dealing with a non-numbered key.

Awkward ;-)

Non-numbered prefs are more frequent than numbered ones...

We'd also need a function to wipe out an existing numbered prefs name-space.

Cheers,


JCS.