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Issue 2.3

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Writing a Preferences Class

Issue: 2.3 (December/January 2003)
Author: Charles Yeomans
Author Bio: Charles Yeomans is a compulsive refactorer.
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Article Number: 2309
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Almost all applications need a way to save preference settings. The goal of this article is to write a reusable preferences class. We're going to write it using practices from test-driven development and design by contract to see if we can get a solid design and reliable code quickly.

Initial Specification

Let's begin by setting out and describing what our Preferences class should do. The main task is to be able to store and retrieve preference settings using string keys -- for example:

App.Prefs.value("BrowserWindowTop") = 25

SomeEditField.TextFont = App.Prefs.Value("Default Font").

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