RE: [GD-General] A portable preferences library

[Garett B. <gt...@st...>]

//// I wrote:
////
//// So, I'm guessing that the multi-user advantages
//// of the registry-stored preferences are likely
//// used only by an elite few with some serious
//// IT skills.

// Brian Hook wrote:
//
// this is true, but it's still there.  Even if it's
// just 1% of users, if your game sells 200K units,
// that's 2000 users that will run into problems
// with your game.

Actually, I'm suggesting that those 2000 users are the only ones who will
benefit from registry-based user-specific profiles, whereas a system like
that in 1942 lets you choose one of many profiles no matter which user you
are.

If you are planning to write your registry prefs into HKLU, then you are
choosing to cause trouble for someone who suddenly wonders where their prefs
went after they switch from their admin account to their user account.  This
is a problem that using the registry can cause.  I, agree with Colin Fahey:

// The window system is an application with its own
// "preferences".  Microsoft...used [the] Registry...
// for this purpose.
// Application-specific data belongs with the
// application, not with the window manager
// application.

I just don't see how the Registry is in any way an analogue of a memory card
or application bundle.  Just the opposite, it is an increasingly obscure
database bloated with junk data that is very difficult to give a thorough
spring cleaning.

Regards,
Garett