> I also don't understand why you can't automate things like saving and restoring settings. Because of C++ :) More seriously, it's the actual design of the opt

> I also don't understand why you can't automate things like saving and restoring settings. Because of C++ :) More seriously, it's the actual design of the options screen. Different variables are hooked to different controls, and I have to make sure that eg. when a frequency (in Hz) is loaded from the registry, it is converted to GHz and the control is set to the appropriate value. Little things like this. I use Qt which is very good and abstracts the actual registry/config file access, but it cannot guess things for me. GUI design isn't always easy and boring, but I work on physics data acquisition apps that have 2 or 3 users in total, so literally nobody cares about the UI as long as the experiment data is fine. It could take 10 minutes to figure out the controls and the user would still be happy. Physicists are used to making and using GUIs that would make you weep! In my case the GUI is a very easy to solve problem compared to the rest of the code. Of course things would be different if I made an app with millions of users, a web app, etc.