This is a wrapper for HStore class, it is based on the HStore class. All file I/O in Locana is done using the LStore class. See www.sevasoftware.com/hstore for details about the HStore class.

The LStore uses Marshal for loading and retrieving objects to and from the LStore. There some issues with Marshal in Ruby 1.8. 1) objects saved in an LStore using Ruby 1.8 will not work with earlier versions of Ruby. 2) the initial release of Ruby 1.8 does things that causes errors that I

   can't seem to work around when saving and retrieving objects.  While
   Locana works with Ruby 1.8 the GUI Builder will have problems.