<div dir="auto">Another way would be for tools to register to receive notifications for *all* preference changes on the Preference class, and let the handler look at the preference name and decide what to do (ignoring the event if the tool doesn’t know the preference name). Preferences would notify changes by doing something like ‘self class triggerEvent: #preferenceChanged with: self’.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 6 May 2022 at 3:24 PM Hilaire Fernandes <<a href="mailto:hilaire@drgeo.eu">hilaire@drgeo.eu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
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<p><font size="4" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Indeed. <br>
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<p><font size="4" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">But works only when Preference instance with the
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<div>Le 05/05/2022 à 22:07, Luciano
Notarfrancesco a écrit :<br>
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<div dir="auto">You can avoid replacing the existing instances by
iterating over the preferences you read from the file and
setting their values on the existing prefeences.</div>
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