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| author | Albrecht Schlosser <albrechts.fltk@online.de> | 2020-01-26 15:11:40 +0100 |
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| committer | Albrecht Schlosser <albrechts.fltk@online.de> | 2020-01-26 15:11:40 +0100 |
| commit | d2cb11369c8e6e846e16b88b327b871a498dac51 (patch) | |
| tree | 946fd7f3d782739b3255cd5ebd819956a814448e | |
| parent | 30a868dc0f9e777dfe3182920a04814d34538969 (diff) | |
Improve migration docs on Fl_Preferences
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/src/migration_1_4.dox | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/src/migration_1_4.dox b/documentation/src/migration_1_4.dox index 425135ca9..57fd9faea 100644 --- a/documentation/src/migration_1_4.dox +++ b/documentation/src/migration_1_4.dox @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ This appendix describes the differences between the FLTK 1.3.x and FLTK 1.4.x functions and classes. -\section migration_1_4_old_versions Migrating From FLTK 1.0 Or 1.1 To 1.4 +\section migration_1_4_old_versions Migrating from FLTK 1.0 or 1.1 to 1.4 If you want to migrate your code from FLTK 1.0 or 1.1 to FLTK 1.4, then you should first consult the relevant appendices in FLTK 1.3 @@ -22,8 +22,19 @@ and/or https://www.fltk.org/software.php , respectively. \section migration_1_4_preferences Fl_Preferences -(to be documented) +Starting with FLTK 1.3, preference databases are expected to be in UTF-8 +encoding. Previous databases were stored in the current character set or +code page which renders them incompatible for text entries using +international characters. + +Starting with FLTK 1.4, searching a valid path to store the preferences +files has changed slightly. Please see +Fl_Preferences::Fl_Preferences(Root, const char*, const char*) +for details. +If you want to retain user preferences you may want to move the preferences +file from its old location to the new location as documented in +Fl_Preferences::Fl_Preferences(Root, const char*, const char*) . \htmlonly |