Method getBoolean

app/src/processing/app/Preferences.java:299–315

(String attribute)

  static public boolean getBoolean(String attribute) {
    String value = get(attribute); //, null);
    return Boolean.parseBoolean(value);

    /*
      supposedly not needed, because anything besides 'true'
      (ignoring case) will just be false.. so if malformed -> false
    if (value == null) return defaultValue;

    try {
      return (new Boolean(value)).booleanValue();
    } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
      System.err.println("expecting an integer: " + attribute + " = " + value);
    }
    return defaultValue;
    */
  }


  static public void setBoolean(String attribute, boolean value) {