08-03-2023, 04:14 PM
I got you. I think I understand the scenario there.
My thoughts...probably I don't want to spend time building in a lot of file manipulation tools as those already exist way beyond what OrBit will ever do, i.e. Beyond Compare or Notepad++ for example. Now the reason why the saved settings file is "orb" is because I wanted to preserve a file format that was not likely to generate problems or errors on loading. I could have made it text file, at the time I didn't want people to edit it, change the format, add illegal characters etc. I can probably deal with adding the error handling at this point, if I changed it to a readable text file, like the new "presets" settings file is.
I will think about it, I am thinking if you had two readable text files instead of the "orb" format, you could easily use any software of your choice to compare them, right?
My thoughts...probably I don't want to spend time building in a lot of file manipulation tools as those already exist way beyond what OrBit will ever do, i.e. Beyond Compare or Notepad++ for example. Now the reason why the saved settings file is "orb" is because I wanted to preserve a file format that was not likely to generate problems or errors on loading. I could have made it text file, at the time I didn't want people to edit it, change the format, add illegal characters etc. I can probably deal with adding the error handling at this point, if I changed it to a readable text file, like the new "presets" settings file is.
I will think about it, I am thinking if you had two readable text files instead of the "orb" format, you could easily use any software of your choice to compare them, right?