Standard configuration file

Tom Wheeley (tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 24 Jun 96 10:55:20 GMT 


What I am proposing is a standard config file which *all* editors and

utilities use to get info on their settings and peoples Quake location and

prefs etc.



To make things easier for Windows programmers, I suggest this be designed in

thw Windows .ini file format -- built in routines in Windows for these, and

easy enough for DOS programs to read.  Putting things in the Win95 registry

would be nice, but difficult fro DOS / (Win 3.x?) people to access.



lines should of course be commented with a `#'.



Thus there would be a main section:



[quake]

loc=c:/quake

pak=c:/quake/id1/pak0.pak   # Or whatever the name of reg pak may be



(perhaps including hardware settings)



mouse=logitech

mousebut=3

vidmode=0



Then people could add



[SuperQuakeEditor]

advanced=yes

QueryOnExit=no



to control editor specific settings.



This file (quake.ini ?  editing.ini ?)

could be kept in the Quake dir, or perhaps in C:\ (messy) or in the path

somewhere.  It should really be findable wherever the user is when running

their editor, encouraging people to edit files not in their Quake dir :-)



Comments?  This would only work if most people used it, but I think everyone

would benefit.  Perhaps source for accessing the file could be kept in the

source repository, to make it very easy for developers?



.splitbung


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