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+[[Property:title|Preferences Sample]]
+[[Property:link_title|EiffelPreferences Sample]]
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+==Compiling==
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+* Launch EiffelStudio. 
+* Click '''Add project'''
+* Browse to ''$ISE_EIFFEL\examples\preferences\''. 
+* Choose ''preferences_example.ecf''
+* Choose the location where the project will be compiled, by default the same directory containing the configuration file. 
+* Choose the target: ''registry'' (Windows only) will use the registry to store the preferences, ''xml'' will use a xml file to store the preferences.
+* Click '''OK'''. 
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+==Running==
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+After launching the application, you will see a window displayed with 2 buttons. When clicked each will display a window showing the preferences, one is the default view provided with the library, the other is a custom view for purposes of example. The default view looks like:
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+[[Image:normal|preferences_example_normal_view]]  
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+The custom view looks like: 
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+[[Image:custom|preferences_example_normal_view]]  
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+In each dialog you can select the preferences and alter the values. 
+==Under the Hood==
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+This example shows you how to achieve the following tasks: 
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+* Create preferences using the library supplied preference types and associated views
+* Use the default widget for viewing preferences and manipulating their values
+* Create a custom preference (a preference for storing correctly formatted directory path names)
+* Create a widget to view and change the custom preference type value
+* Create a custom manager to register custom types to the system
+* Create a custom dialog for viewing all the preferences
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