[P2pim-devel] Preferences class now in CVS

[James H. <hol...@ke...>]

I've added the im.prefs.Preferences class to CVS. To get at the object for
the main preferences, call control.getMainPrefs(). This will return a
Preferences object. Of course this object is useless if it doesn't have
the get/set methods you need, so add them as neccesary. 

I also changed the name of the preferences file, so it doesn't clobber the
file being created by the Client class. We can change the name back once
the Client class has switched to using Preferences.

When you add new get/set methods to the Preferences, make note of whether
you save or not. I made saving preferences a seperate public method. The
idea is that we may at some time need to make a large number of changes to
the preferences in a short amount of time. Saving after each change would
cause massive slow down. So, when you add a get/set method you have to
make note of whether you save or not, so we can tell from the docs what
changes we have to manually save after and what ones we don't. A forced
save on program exit would be a good idea too.