Re: [Jericho-devel] Preferences file

[josh l. <jo...@st...>]

Kirsty Darbyshire wrote:
> 
> I've just added in a "Save Options" menu item for BloggerGUI.  At the
> moment this just writes out a "jericho.properties" file in the current
> directory.  It also reads the same file from the current directory at
> startup and uses the properties to log you in.
> 
> I'll add in a Manila version soon.
> 
> It needs some improvements:
>   * do something useful if your login details are wrong (also true of
> the main login box)
>   * better file placement, eg look for $JERICHO_PREFS first, then
> ~/.jerichorc, then ./.jerichorc or something like that.
>   * allow you to not save your password but just type it in at startup

Awesome..  Thanks for picking it up..  :)

I was thinking that maybe we should create a JerichoProperties class
which would handle all of the gory details of the properties such as the
search for them and loading/saving.  That way, we could change
properties formats (say to XML or something) and we wouldn't need to
much with the GUI.

It could be something like:

[in JerichoGUI]

JerichoProperties jprop = JerichoProperties.getInstance();
if Blogger
   if jprop != null
	BloggerGUI(jprop)
    else
	BloggerGUI()

and then the same thing for Manila..

What do you think?


josh