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Preference Weirdness

Posted by Michael Ellis on Jun 17, 2010; 1:11pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Tracing-neurons-in-Sholl-analysis-tp3687379p3687384.html

Can anyone explain what I'm doing wrong regarding using the ImageJ  
preferences?

After observing some strange behaviour I wrote this little
test plugin.

After setting a preference it then appears to fail to read it back.  
The IJ_Prefs.txt file gets written correctly though.

I've tried deleting the IJ_Prefs.txt file (incase there was some weird  
corruption). I'm running under OS-X with 10.5.8. I get the same result  
with ImageJ and ImageJ64.

I must be doing something really silly, but I just cannot see it!

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import ij.*;
import ij.plugin.*;

public class My_Plugin implements PlugIn {

        public void run(String arg) {
                IJ.log("IJ.getVersion()=" + IJ.getVersion());
               
                final String prefName =  "wacky.myval";
                String prefValue = Prefs.getString(prefName, "Default Value");
               
                IJ.log(String.format("pref '%s' is '%s'\n", prefName, prefValue));
               
                prefValue = "New Value";
                IJ.log(String.format("Setting pref '%s' to '%s'", prefName,  
prefValue));
                Prefs.set(prefName, prefValue);
               
                Prefs.savePreferences();

                prefValue = Prefs.getString(prefName, "A default value that should  
not be seen!!!");
                IJ.log(String.format("pref '%s' is '%s'\n", prefName, prefValue));
        }
}

/*
--- Output -----------------------------
IJ.getVersion()=1.44c
pref 'wacky.myval' is 'Default Value'
Setting pref 'wacky.myval' to 'New Value'
pref 'wacky.myval' is 'A default value that should not be seen!!!'
------------------------------------------

After execution, the IJ_Prefs.txt file contains the line
.wacky.myval=NewValue
*/



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