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Author SHA1 Message Date
dchandler
f26dd53da3 Changed the build so that Savant and QuillDriver's builds include
Smart*Player.java, which are accessed via reflection.  Cleaned up the
code a bit so that it would compile in so doing.

Changed the 'options.txt' preferences file to reflect the new method
of selecting media players.
2002-10-27 19:12:13 +00:00
dchandler
79776d44f9 Added the media player preference to the system default preferences file. 2002-10-19 03:29:52 +00:00
dchandler
08e4e2fc57 Added a flexible mechanism for persistent boolean-, integer-, and
string-valued preferences built atop java.util.Properties.

How it works: the jvm is asked first, and then the user's prefs file, if it exists,
then the system-wide prefs file, and then the built-in preferences.  Finally, for
robustness, a default may be optionally hard-coded in the source.

I made several things configurable, too:

the default Tibetan keyboard
the default font sizes and faces
whether you want developer-only features enabled
Savant's file extension (.savant)
etc.

The only known problems are the following:

The default location for the user's preferences file is windows-specific,
arbitrary, and not in the user documentation.  Likewise for the location of the
system-wide preferences file.  You can change them using 'java -D', though.

There is no "Save preferences" option yet, and closing the program does
not save preferences either.
2002-10-14 04:06:05 +00:00