The following are brief descriptions of the system functions that relate to the use of Preferences. See the Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Includes and Autodocs for details on each function call. Table 13-3: Functions Used with Preferences _______________________________________________________________________ | | | Function Description | |=======================================================================| | GetPrefs() Old 1.3 (V34) function for making a copy of the | | Preferences structure | | SetPrefs() Old 1.3 (V34) function for overwriting Preferences | | with new data | | GetDefPrefs() Old 1.3 (V34) function for copying default | | Preferences from ROM | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------| | StartNotify() Release 2 DOS library function for monitoring a | | .prefs file for changes | | EndNotify() Ends notification started with StartNotify() | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------| | AllocIFF() IFFParse library function that creates an IFFHandle | | for parsing | | InitIFFasDOS() Initialize the IFFHandle as a DOS stream | | OpenIFF() Initialize an IFFHandle for reading or writing a new | | stream | | PropChunk() Specify a property chunk to store | | ParseIFF() Parse an IFF file from the IFFHandle stream | | CurrentChunk() Returns the top level context of an IFF stream | | FindProp() Search for a property chunk previously declared with | | PropChunk() | | CloseIFF() Closes an IFF context opened with OpenIFF() | | FreeIFF() Frees the IFFHandle created with AllocIFF() | |_______________________________________________________________________|