From 37ea14ed187b905bfc800ea70c50de3b5f88df35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rose Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 01:38:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] prc files start with digits now --- doc/INSTALL | 23 +++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/INSTALL b/doc/INSTALL index 3570343f31..67acb4a5b2 100644 --- a/doc/INSTALL +++ b/doc/INSTALL @@ -681,23 +681,26 @@ Panda is compiled and is only used at build time. The prc files are read in every time Panda is started and control the way Panda behaves at runtime. -The system-defined prc files begin with the underscore character, so -that they sort to the top of the list and are read first (and so that -you may define one or more additional files that are read afterwards -and that will therefore override the values specified in these system -files). +The system-defined prc files begin with digits, so that they sort to +the top of the list and are read first (and so that you may define one +or more additional files that are read afterwards and that will +therefore override the values specified in these system files). The +digits also imply an ordering between the prc files. We recommend +that you name your own prc file(s) beginning with letters, unless for +some reason you need a file to be loaded before one of the +system-defined prc files. -We suggest creating a file in $INSTALL_DIR/etc called Config.prc, -where you will put your own custom configuration options. For +We suggest creating a file in $INSTALL_DIR/etc called Config.prc, into +which you will put your own custom configuration options. For instance, if you want to run using OpenGL instead of the Windows default of DirectX9, you can add the line: load-display pandagl to your Config.prc file. If you choose not to do this at this time, -you can just leave this file empty for now; we do recommend creating -at least an empty Config.prc file as a placeholder into which you can -add your custom configuration options later. +you can just leave this file empty for now; however, we do recommend +creating at least an empty Config.prc file as a placeholder into which +you can add your custom configuration options later. The complete list of available configuration options is very large and is not fully documented; but there are other documents that list