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

how can i check it if it is a table ?
do you mean low level functions ?

suhashegde