[sword-devel] General question

[Harry Plantinga]

Hi,

My name is Harry Plantinga. I'm the director of the Christian
Classics Ethereal Library. I'm interested in the Sword plans,
architecture, etc.

Is there an overview of the architecture, a requirements
specification, or something like that?  Is there an archive
of the mailing list?

-Harry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sword-devel@crosswire.org
> [mailto:owner-sword-devel@crosswire.org]On Behalf Of Paul Gear
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 6:30 AM
> To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] feature request
> 
> 
> "Troy A. Griffitts" wrote:
> > 
> > ...
> > You may also consider that it might not be a good idea to save some
> > settings to the systemwide module config files.  It might be better to
> > save, say, a ~/.sword/modoptions.conf file and letting your subclass of
> > SWMgr merge the contents of ~/.sword/modoptions.conf into its config
> > object:
> > 
> >     SWConfig localopts("~/.sword/localopts");
> >     swmgr->config += localopts;
> > 
> > The '+=' merge adds everything from localopts into the swmgr's config
> > entries (overriding any that were already there).
> > ...
> 
> A suggestion/request: make it work like java.util.Properties.  The way
> they do it is that each Properties object can take another Properties
> object as its default.  The above syntax could be used to do this, but
> in terms of implementation, it would merely set a pointer to the default
> SWConfig object.  Then the implementation of a get() function would look
> something like this:
> 
>     string
>     SWConfig::get( string key )
>     {
>         string result = hashtable.get( key );
>         if (result == NULL) {
>           // or whatever the equivalent is for C++ strings
>             result = defaults.get( key );
>         }
>         return result;
>     }
> 
> The put() operation would not be the same, though - it would just put
> into the local hash table (so that user preferences would not be written
> to the global preferences).  If the system preferences need to be
> changed, just put() into the defaults object and save() that, assuming
> permission to do it.
> 
> What think y'all?
> 
> Paul
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