Re: saving geometry to disk on window resize

["muppet" <scott asofyet org>]

Joe Smith said:
> muppet wrote:
>
> > this works for me...
>
> > # load from disk if it exists.
> > if (-f 'saved') {
> >      eval join "", `cat saved`;
> > }
>
> I know it's only an example, but that probably ought to have a warning
> label.  You hope that the contents of 'saved' never looks like:
> system('rm -rf $HOME')

honestly, i spent more time on the comments than the code.  besides, updating
the stored location at every change is a huge waste, as well, just updating at
close would be sufficient.   given that i did the whole thing in less than
five minutes, i think that's doing pretty well.  ;-)

still, this list is archived and that evil code is now available on google
with my name on it.  bad muppet, no biscuit.


> Is there a simple way to save/restore stuff like this in a relatively
> safe way, without a lot of hassle?

that's what Gnome2::GConf is all about.


> Examples really shouldn't include unexploded ordinance.

ah, another addition for my random sig engine...


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