upgrade to 6.2 forgets preferences

[lugnutz]

Good grief ... it seems the most recent 6.1 upgrades haven't had this problem, so why now? It's such a major hassle having to resize workspace, hide certain toolbars, move around toolbars, turn on accurate candles (seems kind of strange to think that the default setting for a stock market charting program is to display bars inaccurately... but I digress.) What else did I forget to re-configure the way I had it? Ugh!

lugz

[billbled]

Sorry for the inconvenience lugz,
6.2 writes a new Registry key - thus the need to re-do your preferences.

[lugnutz]

It's 2010!!!

This "problem" (failure of the install script to copy old user prefs to whatever new structure/registry/database) is so 1990s.

lugz

[emboehm]

Originally posted by billbled
Sorry for the inconvenience lugz,
6.2 writes a new Registry key - thus the need to re-do your preferences.

Is it possible to just copy the old registry key to the new location. That is

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\eSignal\QCharts_6_1

to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\eSignal\QCharts_6_2

?

[billbled]

Hi Eric,
Truthfully, I don't know.
Haven't tried.

It's pretty easy to zip through the Preferences box, so that's what I've always done. It's not a big deal on my end.

Most users aren't comfortable inside RegEdit - so I wouldn't steer them that way. But if you want to try it - go ahead - it might work. I may experiment with it - I'm sort of curious now.

[tradertom]

Software has the ability to easily translate preferences from previous installations during the installation script or even during the first run of the upgraded application, assuming the engineers know what the settings are and how they translate (key locations, key names, key values). I don't see why QCharts places that burden on the users.

Writing a new registry key is trivial if the software does this; it should not be left to users. Either the software engineers know what the settings are for each version and choose not to automate the translation of those settings, or they don't know what those settings are in the first place (which is worrisome in itself!) I am aware that some upgrades could require new settings for which there is no previous equivalent but that is usually handled by setting a default value for those. Something tells me that this is not the case with this release.

Freeware upgrades do this easily and with more settings than QCharts. Cheap software even does this. I guess I just expect more from QCharts than the designers are able or willing to provide.