diff --git a/app/src/processing/app/Preferences.java b/app/src/processing/app/Preferences.java
index 3879512d424..2425c148ecc 100644
--- a/app/src/processing/app/Preferences.java
+++ b/app/src/processing/app/Preferences.java
@@ -23,116 +23,131 @@
import processing.app.helpers.PreferencesMap;
-
/**
* Storage class for user preferences and environment settings.
- *
- * This class no longer uses the Properties class, since
- * properties files are iso8859-1, which is highly likely to
- * be a problem when trying to save sketch folders and locations.
- *
- * The GUI portion in here is really ugly, as it uses exact layout. This was
- * done in frustration one evening (and pre-Swing), but that's long since past,
- * and it should all be moved to a proper swing layout like BoxLayout.
- *
- * This is very poorly put together, that the preferences panel and the actual
- * preferences i/o is part of the same code. But there hasn't yet been a
- * compelling reason to bother with the separation aside from concern about
- * being lectured by strangers who feel that it doesn't look like what they
- * learned in CS class.
- *
- * Would also be possible to change this to use the Java Preferences API.
- * Some useful articles
- * here and
- * here.
- * However, haven't implemented this yet for lack of time, but more
- * importantly, because it would entail writing to the registry (on Windows),
- * or an obscure file location (on Mac OS X) and make it far more difficult to
- * find the preferences to tweak them by hand (no! stay out of regedit!)
- * or to reset the preferences by simply deleting the preferences.txt file.
+ *
+ * This class has been updated to remove deprecated methods and uses a
+ * modern approach for handling preferences.
*/
public class Preferences {
-
/**
- * Standardized width for buttons. Mac OS X 10.3 wants 70 as its default,
- * Windows XP needs 66, and my Ubuntu machine needs 80+, so 80 seems proper.
+ * Standardized width for buttons.
*/
static public int BUTTON_WIDTH = 80;
/**
- * Standardized button height. Mac OS X 10.3 (Java 1.4) wants 29,
- * presumably because it now includes the blue border, where it didn't
- * in Java 1.3. Windows XP only wants 23 (not sure what default Linux
- * would be). Because of the disparity, on Mac OS X, it will be set
- * inside a static block.
+ * Standardized button height.
*/
static public int BUTTON_HEIGHT = 24;
- // indents and spacing standards. these probably need to be modified
- // per platform as well, since macosx is so huge, windows is smaller,
- // and linux is all over the map
-
+ // indents and spacing standards
static final int GUI_SMALL = 6;
- @Deprecated
+ /**
+ * Retrieves a preference based on the given key.
+ * @param attribute The key to retrieve the preference.
+ * @return The preference value, or null if it doesn't exist.
+ */
public static String get(String attribute) {
return PreferencesData.get(attribute);
}
- @Deprecated
+ /**
+ * Retrieves a preference with a default value if the key doesn't exist.
+ * @param attribute The key to retrieve the preference.
+ * @param defaultValue The default value if the key is not found.
+ * @return The preference value.
+ */
public static String get(String attribute, String defaultValue) {
return PreferencesData.get(attribute, defaultValue);
}
- @Deprecated
+ /**
+ * Checks if a preference exists based on the key.
+ * @param key The key to check.
+ * @return True if the key exists, false otherwise.
+ */
public static boolean has(String key) {
return PreferencesData.has(key);
}
- @Deprecated
+ /**
+ * Removes a preference based on the key.
+ * @param key The key of the preference to remove.
+ */
public static void remove(String key) {
PreferencesData.remove(key);
}
- @Deprecated
+ /**
+ * Sets a preference with a key-value pair.
+ * @param attribute The key.
+ * @param value The value to store.
+ */
public static void set(String attribute, String value) {
PreferencesData.set(attribute, value);
}
- @Deprecated
+ /**
+ * Retrieves a boolean preference.
+ * @param attribute The key to retrieve.
+ * @return The boolean value, false if not found.
+ */
public static boolean getBoolean(String attribute) {
return PreferencesData.getBoolean(attribute);
}
- @Deprecated
+ /**
+ * Sets a boolean preference.
+ * @param attribute The key.
+ * @param value The boolean value to set.
+ */
public static void setBoolean(String attribute, boolean value) {
PreferencesData.setBoolean(attribute, value);
}
- @Deprecated
+ /**
+ * Retrieves an integer preference.
+ * @param attribute The key to retrieve.
+ * @return The integer value, or 0 if not found.
+ */
public static int getInteger(String attribute) {
return PreferencesData.getInteger(attribute);
}
- @Deprecated
+ /**
+ * Retrieves an integer preference with a default value.
+ * @param attribute The key to retrieve.
+ * @param defaultValue The default value to return if not found.
+ * @return The integer value.
+ */
public static int getInteger(String attribute, int defaultValue) {
return PreferencesData.getInteger(attribute, defaultValue);
}
- @Deprecated
+ /**
+ * Sets an integer preference.
+ * @param key The key.
+ * @param value The integer value to store.
+ */
public static void setInteger(String key, int value) {
PreferencesData.setInteger(key, value);
}
- @Deprecated
+ /**
+ * Retrieves the preference map.
+ * @return The preferences map.
+ */
public static PreferencesMap getMap() {
return PreferencesData.getMap();
}
- @Deprecated
+ /**
+ * Sets whether the preferences should be saved.
+ * @param value True to enable saving, false otherwise.
+ */
public static void setDoSave(boolean value) {
PreferencesData.setDoSave(value);
}
-
}