[Alephmodular-devel] Preferences progress update 12/03/03

[Br'fin <br...@ma...>]

I've been working on preferences. I think I have the internals all set.  
I've been working on a reader module for wad style preferences. Still  
need to work on an interim wad style writer. And I still need to tie  
the use of CPreferences into AM as a whole (Right now AM still uses the  
existing preference setup and I tap into it just enough to initialize  
CPreferences and get a dump of the loaded info.)

The internal hierarchy is a two level set of hash maps. One level  
determines domain and the other determines actual keys and values  
within that domain.

Actual values that are stored are:
	bool
	double (Covers all number formats)
	string
	data (raw data quantity and length)

The dump below uses the mechanism to convert the internally stored  
values for strings to place in the final file. So the strings have xml  
formatting applied to them (' and such similar things) and the  
data is encoded in base 64.

Thoughts? Comments? Perhaps I should take flag based arguments and  
split them all out into bools?

-Jeremy Parsons

--- Preferences Dump ---
environment:
	physics_file:  
/5wA/// 
gCk0xIFBoeXNpY3NFKS5idWlsZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==
	sounds_file:  
/5wA// 
+6BlNvdW5kc2FpZmZFKXVuZHNsZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==
	sounds_mod_date: 2898499547
	map_checksum: 762432692
	physics_checksum: 2898499547
	map_file:  
/5wA// 
+6A01hcGRvdXJhfihFKWluZ2lsZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==
	shapes_file:  
/5wA// 
+6BlNoYXBlc3JhfihFKWluZ2lsZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==
	shapes_mod_date: 2898502613
graphics:
	gamma_level: 4
	bit_depth: 16
	size: 1
	high_resolution: TRUE
	acceleration: FALSE
	device_spec: AAAAAQAQ/4AB4A==
input:
	keycodes: AFsAVwBWAFgAAAACAAwADgANAAEAAwBZAFwAMQA4ADcAOQA6ADAALgAy
	input_device: 0
sound:
	flags: 59
	channel_count: 4
	volume: 4
	pitch: 65536
player:
	name: Br'fin
	team: 0
	last_time_ran: 3153293396
	difficulty_level: 2
	color: 0
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