Topic: Group project

[Keith™]

PS  You forgot Keith.....where IS he, anyhow? This sounds like sumpin he'd like to play with.

I have been ugh ... working ... internet is down at work and I can't connect until I get home,  unless I want to connect at 19k .. much too painful to sit and watch the blank screen to download the next selected link ....

Anyway, It seems like a good idea folks .... and I agree with Stig we do need to define a setting group.

I suggest something along the following to begin defining the standard .....
Groups should be used, groups should be divided into segments headed by a group name
In this group you can have an unlimited number of subgroups. Each of these subgroups can be set apart just like coding in C++, with a simple twist.

For example:

[dimstyle]
dimension1={
Dimexe=1.0
Dimaso=2
}
dimension2={
Dimexe=1.0
Dimaso=1
}
[layer]
wall={
color=yellow
linetype=continuous
lineweight=0.1
plot=1
}
[sysvars]
clayer=wall
cmdecho=1

[SMadsen]

Very nice, clean and consequent, Keith.

Mark, before everything comes of course the question of what it should be used for. When you said "joe user" I took it that the average user should be allowed to set up things that are not programming related.

If it's merely for settings used privately by a custom application then it would probably be enough with a bunch of variable=value's

[Mark]

Very nice, clean and consequent, Keith.

Mark, before everything comes of course the question of what it should be used for. When you said "joe user" I took it that the average user should be allowed to set up things that are not programming related.

If it's merely for settings used privately by a custom application then it would probably be enough with a bunch of variable=value's

that was my original thought but after Michael mentioned the other possiblities I don't feel that way anymore. After all if the function can do all that then there is no need for the user to ever see the file.

I like Keith's idea also.

[Keith™]

Well lets coe up with some solid ideas so we can get this thing done ... or not ...

[Mark]

What about comments? Are we going to have a definitive comment character? Like ';' or '#' ?

I see know  easy way of coding for in-line comments, it could be done but is it worth it?

Code: [Select]


[dimstyle] # in-line comment
dimension1={
Dimexe=1.0
Dimaso=2
}


[MP]

Sorry folks, I'm not ignoring this thread, but between <cough> the excitement yesterday and the new standards forum, this thread got back burnered.

However, being a stick in the mud, I am still not seeing why the .ini format could not address the need identified thus far. While I would enjoy helping hammer out a new spec, nothing I've seen so far seems to warrant it, but I fully acknowledge that I have been wrong many times before.