XYplorer.ini without SaveSettings, but "changed"

[PeterH]

I don't have "Save Settings on Exit" selected.

But I just happened to notice that on terminating XY the change-data/time of XYplorer.ini is changed to the current date/time. That is: it seems something *is* written! (Though maybe nothing is changed.)
(It's enough to just start and stop XY.)

Does this make any sense?

(I wanted to look how many days ago I manually saved settings - and was surprised it was today...)

[admin]

Confirmed. This has always been like this. The only key written is the "Save settings on Exit" key -- to remember that you don't want to remember. But, yes, this can be handled better. Will improve...

[PeterH]

Confirmed. This has always been like this. The only key written is the "Save settings on Exit" key -- to remember that you don't want to remember. But, yes, this can be handled better. Will improve...

Don't really understand...

After setting "Don't Save Settings on Exit" I always manually saved, as I expected it wouldn't be saved otherwise. Now it seems that wasn't necessary?

Now I verified, that (after your change) on simple start/stop XY the file wasn't written again. Fine!
But what would it mean if I would just change the setting to NoSave? Would this be saved?? Or how should I interpret your words?

But OK, thinking about that: I would expect it to be the hard way! That is: from the moment I de-select "Save Settings on Exit" I would not expect any setting to be automatically saved on exit. And if I want to save this new setting I have to do it explicitly - just as I always did. This way it always does what it says - you never must explain exceptions...
(And in the moment I select "Don't Save..." it becomes my responsibility to do so.)

By the way: funny, that "Don't Save Settings" was the reason that a setting was saved...
I didn't expect this.

[admin]

Yes, it was indeed done automatically, so what you did manually all the time was not necessary.

This logic is very old, from before it was possible actively save the settings I think. But it does not harm now I think.

[j_c_hallgren]

Question: What if someone has Save Settings off and then updates their license key? That's not really a setting but is stored there.

[admin]

Question: What if someone has Save Settings off and then updates their license key? That's not really a setting but is stored there.

It works.

[PeterH]

Isn't this the kind of "smartness" you don't like?

If the user selecting "Don't Save Settings on Exit" were responsible for what he did you could save quite some logic, I think.

But don't get me wrong: after the change it's not a problem at all.
Thanks for that!

[admin]

Isn't this the kind of "smartness" you don't like?

If the user selecting "Don't Save Settings on Exit" were responsible for what he did you could save quite some logic, I think.

But don't get me wrong: after the change it's not a problem at all.
Thanks for that!

Yes, the "smartness" I don't like? But before I added this (long time ago) users unticked "Save settings on exit", then closed the app, and began writing me mails asking me why their setting did not stick... I had to stop this.