Re: R: R: [AD] Allegro 5 new config routines, alpha 1

[Sven Sandberg <svsa1977@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Angelo Mottola wrote:
> What worries me is that when you set a variable from a program as
> belonging to hex for example, and you write the config to a file, when
> you reload it next time, you probably want that variable to still be
> an hex, without conversions. 

Sorry, what conversions? In my mind, we store everything only as a
string in memory, so the config routines do not know anything about
types. Conversion is done from integer to string when you call
set_config_int() or set_config_hex(), from string to integer when you
call get_config_int(), and not at all when you call get_config_string().
Decimal, octal and hexadecimal integers are distinguished by the
prefixes nothing, 0, or 0x. So set_config_hex("foo",18193) just saves
the string "0x4711", get_config_int("foo") returns 18193, and
get_config_string("foo") returns "0x4711". Or did I overlook something?

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