Re: [GD-General] A portable preferences library

[Brett B. <res...@ga...>]

Brian,
Are you thinking the preferences library will be portable enough to work
for consoles too? Specifically I'm thinking how I could interface this
to the memory card sub-systems on GameCube and PS2. We already have a
preferences implementation for consoles we built by implementing an ANSI
file system compatible interface over the memory card sub-system and it
works pretty well, and the idea we could just have one preferences
library is compelling :-)

Also, I assume most people don't read/write preferences often, but I was
wondering if your library would have the concept of loading all the
prefs in the beginning, then reading/writing them in memory, then
finally flushing them back to non-volatile storage when done?  The
reason for this is that memory cards have a limited lifespan and are
slow to access anyway, so being able to read/write to storage only once
is a good thing.

Brett