Re: paging Brian Wolven

Brian Wolven wrote:
> Hale, Paul wrote:
>> Hey Brian, this is has been bugging me for quite a while now. In regards
>> to your weather scripts and config from Penumbra, Can you explain why we
>> have the volatile.rc file?
>>  
> 
> I stuck everything that could be changed on the fly, via the popup menus 
> with xtextedit, into volatile.rc, because those settings were... 
> volatile. =) Everything in my themevars.rc had to be edited the old 
> fashioned way (you know, using a magnetized paper click and poking at 
> your HD platters...). So although both of them might be changed by the 
> user, they would only edit themevars.rc, and probably only do that once. 
> They shouldn't ever need to touch the contents of volatile.rc manually, 
> but those contents are probably changing frequently. IOW, I just 
> separated the content based on how it was used. It doesn't have to be 
> that way, but you can imagine that the possibilities of an "accident" 
> with xtextedit are likely minimized that way!

True dat, true dat. However I cannot see where volatile is being 
referenced. If I moved the

weatherLocation "Pikesville"
WeatherUpdates "On"

To the themevars, it did not work when I changed the XML file. I was 
tryng to trace back everywhere that volatile was refernced. I think I am 
just to scattered brained ATM to be theme-ing intelligently.

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