Preferences and Configuration Persistence Testing

Preferences opens from the main menu and displays the category tree and the selected settings page.

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Opening Preferences again presents the existing window instead of creating a duplicate.

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Every Interface, Chatting, and Network category opens the correct page without blank or overlapping controls.

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Visiting pages for the first time does not cause visible corruption, a long freeze, or loss of earlier staged changes.

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Closing and reopening Preferences during the same ZoiteChat session returns to the last selected page.

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Resizing Preferences and scrolling long pages keeps labels, controls, and buttons reachable.

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Tab, Shift+Tab, arrow keys, Enter, Space, and Escape provide sensible keyboard navigation without trapping focus.

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Change a toggle, click Cancel, reopen Preferences, and confirm the original value remains.

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Change a text or numeric field, click Cancel, reopen Preferences, and confirm the original value remains.

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Change a menu or radio choice, click Cancel, reopen Preferences, and confirm the original choice remains.

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Change a font or custom color, click Cancel, and confirm the previous appearance is restored without saving the staged value.

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Closing Preferences with the window close control discards staged changes the same way as Cancel.

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After cancelling, restarting ZoiteChat does not reveal any of the discarded changes.

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Change a simple setting, click OK, reopen Preferences, and confirm the new value is selected.

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Changing the chat font updates open sessions after OK without corrupting text layout.

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Input formatting, spell-check, and dictionary settings update existing input boxes after OK.

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User-list appearance settings that support live changes update all open channel sessions after OK.

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Changing logging settings opens or closes logging for existing sessions as expected.

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Tray and alert settings apply to the current session after OK without creating duplicate tray resources.

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Changing timer-related settings takes effect without requiring reconnecting every network.

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After a successful save, the Preferences window closes and the main interface remains responsive.

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Changing a setting that requires restart produces a clear warning after OK.

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A restart-required setting remains selected when Preferences is reopened before restarting.

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After restarting ZoiteChat, the changed layout or control appears exactly once and functions normally.

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Saving live and restart-required changes together applies the live changes immediately and the remaining changes after restart.

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Opening Preferences and clicking OK without further changes does not repeatedly warn about an already-applied restart requirement.

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Leaving the timestamp format blank does not save an unusable format and timestamp display remains recoverable.

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Leaving Real name blank produces a clear warning and stores a safe fallback rather than an empty value.

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An unsupported Tree switcher position produces a clear warning without leaving the layout broken.

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Numeric settings reject, clamp, or safely handle values outside their allowed range.

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Download and completed-download paths save without problematic trailing separators and remain usable.

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Unsafe automatic DCC saving to the home directory produces the expected warning on supported platforms.

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An invalid font choice falls back safely and presents a useful error instead of breaking the interface.

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Representative Appearance settings remain correct after a complete ZoiteChat restart.

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Representative Input box and nickname-completion settings remain correct after restart.

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Representative User list settings remain correct after restart.

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Representative Channel switcher settings remain correct after restart.

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Representative Alerts and Sounds settings remain correct after restart.

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Representative Logging settings remain correct after restart.

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Representative Network setup settings remain correct after restart.

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Representative File transfer and directory settings remain correct after restart.

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Custom colors and theme-derived colors remain correct after restart without unrelated color changes.

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Changing one preference does not reset unrelated preferences to defaults.

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Saving Preferences does not remove or alter saved networks, servers, autojoin channels, or connect commands.

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Applying Preferences does not disconnect networks, close sessions, or lose unsent input unexpectedly.

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When using --cfgdir, Preferences reads from and writes to that configuration directory rather than the normal profile.

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Repeatedly opening, changing, and saving Preferences does not grow duplicate settings or progressively corrupt the interface.

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ZoiteChat exits and restarts cleanly after preference changes with no configuration parse errors.

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Connecting, joining channels, sending messages, and receiving private messages still work after changing Preferences.

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Main menus, context menus, dialogs, tray actions, and keyboard shortcuts remain functional after applying settings.

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Settings apply consistently to tabbed sessions and separately opened windows.

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Navigating, cancelling, saving, reopening, and restarting after Preferences changes complete without crashes or hangs.

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