Hi Pior,

re:
> (I am actually not 100% sure if I like this or not, as that would mean that MOI is somehow
> storing some extra data or path outside of its config folders. Or perhaps it is running some
> kind of test to see if a previous version has been installed, and fills up the startup file field
> in the ini of the other version accordingly ?

It isn't doing anything complicated like that, it's just that by default all versions of MoI use the same one moi.ini file inside the appdata\Moi folder.

It's set up that way so that if you install v5 you can just start using it and any settings you have set to customize your v4 environment will automatically be used by v5 as well.

If you want you can set things up so that MoI v4 and v5 will use separate moi.ini files. You can do that by passing in a command line parameter to MoI.exe giving it the full path to a moi.ini file to use. If there are any spaces in the path put it in "double quotes".


> I certainly wasn't expecting V5 beta to open up with my custom startup file and hotkeys without
> being prompted for a transfer of .ini preferences beforehand. Meaning that it is then unclear if V5
> is pulling its config data from the v4 .ini, or the v5 .ini ...).

I don't see why you'd expect v5 to revert to "factory default" settings instead of using the same settings you have already adjusted for v4.

It is intended that someone who is using v4 can install v5 and just start running it with it behaving similar to v4 which includes automatically using any customized settings.


> Meaning that the feature to retrieve the default styles is perhaps slightly mislabeled,
> as it is not only regenerating the default styles, but it is *also* seemingly recovering
> the ones from the user startup scene. "Add default styles and custom styles from user
> startup scene" would be more exact.

That's true that it would be more exact but it's also generally helpful for various reasons for text labels in the UI to be compact.


- Michael