[Alephmodular-devel] Plist based preferences

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

I've just committed on the prefs-development branch a new Reader/Writer 
pair for Plist based preferences. The Reader uses expat to handle the 
xml, and uses code derived from A1's XML_Configure by Loren to glue 
expat to C++.

In order to compile this branch, one must install expat. Instructions 
for doing so are found in 
alephModular/documents/technical/README_MacOSX.txt.

The preference changes are not yet landed in the main trunk just yet. 
There's some cleanup to be done in the form of removing the wad writer, 
and making sure I can round-trip between the preferences file and 
Apple's PList editor. (I think my base64 decoder needs work so that it 
properly handles/ignores whitespace in the encoded string.)

Also, while the plist reader works, it is verrry simple minded. (It's a 
very simple state based machine. On one hand it's not going to handle 
all the complexities a plist file could have, on the other hand, AM is 
pretty simple minded in the use of the format. Using a subset of the 
features to begin with.) I'm not sure I'm happy with it beyond saying 
that it works in a well defined case. In other words, the reader is 
probably as quick and dirty as things come :/

At any rate, happy holidays to all, and I'll try to get this tidied up 
and merged back into the trunk soon.

-Jeremy Parsons