vellum wrote:
Bob, Before I have a look at the cross-compiled build I would like to get preferences.xml sorted out. I installed Inkscape040106 this morning. Actually the program says it is 040105 but I'm more concerned about preferences.xml at this stage. When I change preferences.xml Inkscape does not pick the changes up. It appears to be ignoring preference.xml when it is changed and overwriting it when the program installs.
Am I doing something wrong? I am sinply modifying preferences.xml with NotePad and saving. Can't get much simpler than that. Win200 system
vellum
Well, I changed nothing between the two. I have noticed, however, that upon startup, the Win32 version creates an "Inkscape" subdirectory, and places a preferences.xml in there. Is this the one you are editing?
As far as encoding, I don't think libxml2 would reject your file if it is merely the difference between ascii and utf-8. The only times I have had trouble with a parser rejecting a file, is when the specified encoding is not available.
If people really want preferences.xml to be saved in a place specified by the registry, I would assume the program would:
1) Look in the registry-defined location for preferences.xml 2) If it isn't found there, then look in the /inkscape subdir 3) If found, keep using that location for the duration of the session. Done 4) If not found, create a new one 5) If the location is defined in the registry put it there 6) If not defined put it in the /inkscape subdir. 7) Keep using -that- location for the duration of the session. Done
I might be able to test this out this evening when I can use a Windows box again.
Bob