ofxPanel : change default settings file

beginners
#1

hello,

I know it is possible to change the default settings file where settings are stored when clicking the disk icon in ofxPanel when using ofxPanel::setup().

But is it possible to change it afterwards ?

What i need is to load settings and see if an option “save localy” is on or off and change the save file name accordingly.

Hope i am clear enough…

thanks

#2

use ofxPanel::saveToFile(string path)

#3

this one writes settings to a specified path right ?
i need to change the path linked to the little disk icon on the top right side of the panel

#4

Hi, yes it writes an xml to the specified path.
Did you try to call ofxPanel::setup(), again? Passing the new path as the second argument.
I don’t know the side effects of this.
On the other hand, there seems to be no ofxPanel::setFilePath(string path) so you might want to modify the class and add this method. this would save to the newly passed filepath when the save icon is pressed.

cheers

#5

hello,

yes i tried calling ofxPanel::setup() again, as expected this messes up the gui.

the only way to achieve that would be to hack the class to add the needed method.

thanks