settings

Is it possible to dynamically alter an iphone app's settings page in the settings app?

For my iPhone app I'm working on, i want to have the ability to dynamically add or remove sections to the settings area for my app. ideally I'd like to be able to alter the list of options in a multi-value specifier, and also to add new rows that drilldown into copies of one settings page. I haven't seen anything in the apple documenta...

Why am I getting absolute urls in Satchmo when I upload product images locally?

I'm doing some local development using Django and Satchmo. When I upload product images locally via the admin, the path to the image shows up as an absolute path, complete with drive letter, rather than the proper relative path. Stranger still, Satchmo saves both the original image and the thumbnails it generates in both me /media/ dir...

Visual Studio 2008, easy way to manage settings?

Is there a plugin or some hidden feature in Visual Studio 2008 that allows for easy swapping between user settings files? Using the import/export wizard all the time gets a little bit tedious. It would be nice if there was a menu item called "Profiles" that you could set up to contain different profiles with different settings and chan...

T-SQL90 settings in Visual Studio 2008 cannot be exported. Is this a bug?

Recently I got a habit of saving my preferences in Visual Studio 2008 for future use, so that whenever I may need to recover the system I won't have to remember what have I forgotten to customize. Tools - Options - Text Editor: Here are several groups distincted by the language. Among others you can see T-SQL, T-SQL7, T-SQL80 and T-SQL...

Propagating application settings

Probably a very common question, but couldn't find suitable answer yet.. I have a (Python w/ C++ modules) application that makes heavy use of an SQLite database and its path gets supplied by user on application start-up. Every time some part of application needs access to database, I plan to acquire a new session and discard it when ...

How do I deal with "Project Files" in my Qt application?

My Qt application should be able to create/open/save a single "Project" at once. What is the painless way to store project's settings in a file? Should it be XML or something less horrible? Of course data to be stored in a file is a subject to change over time. What I need is something like QSettings but bounded to a project in my appl...

Best way to save per user options in C#

What is an easy way to save/load settings? I'd prefer it if each user has their own set of settings. ...

ORM - Saving/Restoring default values for a DB object with C#

In order to assist users with repetitve data entry, I am trying to implement a system where many of the previous properties are remembered when adding new data. Is it possible to use the Properties.Settings.Default.MySetting functionality or is there a better method for doing this kind of thing? ...

How/where to store enterprise configuration settings?

My company has a large customer that has many regions/sites/offices. Each location can have its own set of servers with its own data. The users of the system are centrally administered thru a domain. The computers in this network are locked down with only http access to the internet. There is a company wide Sharepoint portal. All servers...

ClickOnce application not remembering settings when automatically starting with Windows

I have an application that is deployed with ClickOnce, and has an option to automatically start with Windows. However, when I restart Windows, my application starts successfully, but is not able to find the settings (I'm just using the built-in Settings functionality). However, if I close the auto-started app and restart it with the ic...

Storing C# Service Settings in Windows & Mono

I'm writing a C# service that I want to be able to use on Windows and Mono. I've just started experimenting with Mono and am trying to determine the best way to store settings to control the service that works for both Windows and Mono. Settings file where service is installed Pros: Same code for each platform, easy to find for editi...

How to work with settings spanning over multiple Solutions and Projects in VS 2008 and .NET

Hi, I'm not quite sure how .NET and C# 3.5 handles the settings of applications spanning over multiple projects as well as multiple solutions. Maybe someone can help me clear things up. I've got 2 solutions, both containing several projects. Some of those projects contain a Setttings.settings file under the Properties folder, containin...

Maven server authentication as profile properties

Hi all, I am trying to setup a shared authentication system on a build server. We have several maven projects that declares how the deployment should be done regarding the different teams that we have (each team has its own authentication user/password): <profile> <id>release-profile</id> <distributionManagement> <repository> ...

iPhone SDK - load/save settings

I have the following two procedures defined in my AppDelegate. saveSettings and loadSettings. I am calling my loadSettings procedure in the AppDidFinishLaunching method, and I am calling the saveSettings procedure in my settings view, once the save button is clicked. Both methods seem to be called at the right time, the right number of ...

including files without having to specify $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']

Hi... Before the PHP Version update I used to be able to include files as following without specifying the document root: <?php include '/absolute/path/to/files/file1.php'; ?> However I now have to include the same file as following: <?php include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/absolute/path/to/files/file1.php'; ?> What php.ini setti...

How to set the DOCUMENT_ROOT and site root in my local PHP dev setup?

I'm doing a job for a guy with a site online. It's an alien site to me, and I'm slowly working through the strange code. I have MAMP locally and my http://localhost/ has many client folders coming off from that. Inside this code there is a lot of $_SERVER['document_root'] commands and references like which are just getting lost on my lo...

Singleton, Logging and Global Settings - Good or Bad implementation?

I've got a logging class which requires need to be called from almost everywhere in the application. However it requires setup in the beginning of the application with "which path to write", "log level" and if it's "enabled" or not. I don't want to give this parameters every time or pass Logging class as parameter to every single objec...

Is it possible to add info or help text to an iPhone settings bundle?

Several of the Apple-provided apps have informational/help text in their settings. For example, the Keyboard settings shows: which includes the help text "Double tapping the space bar will...". I know I can do this in my app by adding a group footer, but is it possible to do this in the settings app by adding a field to the plist fi...

Question: can the title of my setting differ from the title of my executable/application?

Hi there, I'm developing an application which has a Settings pane, following the AppPrefs sample by Apple. If my application is named AppPrefs, this is the exact name/prompt/ title the Settings application will provide. Is there anyway to make this change? Can my executable somehow be named (for example) Application1 and my Setting...

Question: grouping settings together

Hi, I'm developing a number of application which have a Settings pane, following the AppPrefs sample by Apple. Within the Settings application, my settings appear in the same "group" with other applications. Anyone know of a way to do one of the following: Group all my application settings (e.g. App1 and App2) grouped under one...