Re: [AD] load allegro5.cfg from exe dir

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On 7 Jan 2011, at 10:03 , Matthew Leverton wrote:
> Well, that's why I was asking about its purpose. I know there's some
> sort of priority that happens. Say a programmer wants to package a
> config file with his program to adjust some Allegro setting (assuming
> that even makes sense). Then a user wants to override that setting
> only for that program. What makes the most sense from an OS X
> standpoint?

Probably that you can hit Command-, and adjust settings in the preference window that pops up. :P
It may make sense at some point in the future to think about an extension or addon that does that for global Allegro settings. Not something we should worry about now.

> As an OS X newb, I'd expect that I could just create a file called
> allegro5.cfg right next to the app icon and that would override a) my
> global allegro5.cfg in ~/Library and b) the program's default
> (bundled) allegro5.cfg file.

Probably.

Evert



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