Thanks Mike Can you enter a new bug entry else your contribution may get lost? Stef On Mar 5, 2013, at 2:05 PM, "Müller, Mike" <mike@objektarium.de> wrote:

Hi Pharoers,

thank you for your time. Here is something you may be interested in:

Take the latest image or one-click, open settings browser and click on "Export Settings" to persist them. Then save or not and launch the image again. Exception when reading the preferences from file. You will further notice that the 2 of the 4 generated startup action files are too large. (> 256kb)

Reason: SettingDeclaration>>startupAction stores some setting values as real thick objects on disk. For example, it writes the standard font definitions as Strike Font Instances, which breaks.

Solution: In Method "SettingDeclaration>>startupAction" replace "storeOn: s" with "settingStoreOn: s" to write the correct startup action format.

Error in consequence: After applying this fix, you will notice another Exception during the Import, the FreeTypeSystemSettings class wants a method called #noFt2Library:, here I suggest to add that missing accessor with no action. Maybe someone can refactor the (FreeTypeSystem)Settings to have a #readOnly setting which must not be saved to disk.

Attached are my 2 changes, after applying them, my image can read all the settings back from the startup files. The startup files created are much smaller (~8kb).

This is not exactly clear: "Is every setting materialized from the startup files indeed the original setting?". That would be an interesting test case.

Regards, Mike

<FreeTypeSystemSettings class-noFt2Library.st><SettingDeclaration-startupAction.st>