DocSettings = {} function DocSettings:open(docfile) local new = { file = docfile..".kpdfview.lua", data = {} } local ok, stored = pcall(dofile,new.file) if ok then new.data = stored end return setmetatable(new, { __index = DocSettings}) end function DocSettings:readSetting(key) return self.data[key] end function DocSettings:savesetting(key, value) self.data[key] = value end function dump(data) local out = {} DocSettings:_serialize(data, out, 0) return table.concat(out) end -- simple serialization function, won't do uservalues, functions, loops function DocSettings:_serialize(what, outt, indent) if type(what) == "table" then local didrun = false table.insert(outt, "{") for k, v in pairs(what) do if didrun then table.insert(outt, ",") end table.insert(outt, "\n") table.insert(outt, string.rep("\t", indent+1)) table.insert(outt, "[") self:_serialize(k, outt, indent+1) table.insert(outt, "] = ") self:_serialize(v, outt, indent+1) didrun = true end if didrun then table.insert(outt, "\n") table.insert(outt, string.rep("\t", indent)) end table.insert(outt, "}") elseif type(what) == "string" then table.insert(outt, string.format("%q", what)) elseif type(what) == "number" or type(what) == "boolean" then table.insert(outt, tostring(what)) end end function DocSettings:flush() -- write a serialized version of the data table if not self.file then return end local f_out = io.open(self.file, "w") if f_out ~= nil then local out = {"-- we can read Lua syntax here!\nreturn "} self:_serialize(self.data, out, 0) table.insert(out, "\n") f_out:write(table.concat(out)) f_out:close() end end function DocSettings:close() self:flush() end