Method readSettings

app/src/processing/app/Util.java:75–86

Read from a file with a bunch of attribute/value pairs that are separated by = and ignore comments with #. Changed in 3.x to return null (rather than empty hash) if no file, and changed return type to StringDict instead of Map or HashMap.

(File inputFile)

   * and changed return type to StringDict instead of Map or HashMap.
   */
  static public StringDict readSettings(File inputFile) {
    if (!inputFile.exists()) {
      Messages.loge(inputFile + " does not exist inside readSettings()");
      return null;
    }
    String lines[] = PApplet.loadStrings(inputFile);
    if (lines == null) {
      System.err.println("Could not read " + inputFile);
      return null;
    }
    return readSettings(inputFile.toString(), lines);
  }


  /**