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=Original content of this page= | |||
==How this page used to be laid out, and why== | |||
For both [[Cumulus.ini_(Cumulus_1)|Cumulus 1]] and [[Cumulus.ini(MX_3.0.0_to_3.9.7)|early MX releases]], the content on this page was arranged assuming people were editing the file directly. | |||
Therefore, the file was described by working through the sections on the file, and explaining the parameters that could go in each section. | |||
For the longer sections, parameters might be split into separate tables to make it easier. | |||
Before release 3.10.1, there were two types of parameters in Cumulus.ini. | |||
#"read-only" settings were made directly in the "Cumulus.ini" file, there was no way to adjust these parameters using the settings screens/pages | |||
#"read-write" settings could be changed in two ways, either by editing the file with Cumulus stopped, or by finding the parameter on a setting screen (for MX, these are in admin interface). | |||
:You will see in the two pages split off from this page ([[Cumulus.ini_(Cumulus_1)]] and [[Cumulus.ini(MX_3.0.0_to_3.9.7)]), how the parameters had to identify themselves as read-only or read-write. | |||
==Why has this original "Cumulus.ini" page been renamed, cleared of old content, and made historic?== | |||
#One big change in 3.10.1 is that (almost) all settings are now made via the [[MX Administrative Interface|Admin interface]]. | |||
#*Therefore it makes no sense any more to organise this page how someone editing the file directly might want. | |||
#*The replacement [[Cumulus.ini]] page is now organised by how you change settings in the admin interface (i.e. similar to how settings have been explained in [[MX_Administrative_Interface#Changing_Settings]]). | |||
#Another change is that some of the settings that used to be made on the “Station Settings” page, are now made on different pages in that interface. | |||
#Yet another change is that what you pick in some settings can affect what settings are shown later on the admin interface page. | |||
#*You could say the settings pages have become intelligent. | |||
#*For example, when you select a weather station type it ensures only parameters that relate to that weather station type are shown. | |||
#*As another example, you can opt in or out of the default web site design, so that determines which parameters relating to web sites are shown. | |||
#A final change is that some parameters are grouped as “Advanced”, so that novices can avoid those. | |||