>hi,
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>How can I save and load default prefrences ?
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>My idea is
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>Saving it to a text file with a .pre extension and loading the same by using file name with .pre extension.
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>i am against using a .dbf as .pre (which would have been easy) but if the user creates a any file with .pre , while loading the application might error out with "not a table".
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>Any idea on how to do the same ?
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>I am not worried abt the user changing the saved .pre because i will validate the ranges for the definations.
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>Eg:
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>MAX = 30
>MIN = 30
>Timeperiod = 10
>..
>
>..
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>is this a proper way or is there any better way ?
>
>suhashegde

You can check if it's a table. Also you can save it as XML and XMLToCursor to get as cursor.
Cetin