Re: INI formatting
- From: "vovan" <someone@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:23:03 -0400
You are right Kevin.
But just open HKLM\Software and you'll see a lot of entries including
Microsoft's with program settings.
So, Microsoft teaches us not to use HKLM, but it uses itself.
Many other companies (at least I see on my machine) such as Adobe, Symantec
use HKLM too.
vovan
"Kevin Provance" <casey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OqAU7MEsHHA.4932@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I don't understand this. Programs were never supposed to use HKLM for
specific settings. Apps were supposed to be using HKCU...at least that's
what I was taught. By this rule, I've never experienced any problems
using
the registry in Vista. But I can see where this restriction in Vista
would
make it difficult to have settings on a global basis, rather than per
user.
That I never understood either. It's like MS wants to force developers to
do settings on a per user basis. It should be the developers choice.
The only problem I ever had with INIs was curious end users trying to edit
them by hand and futzing things up...but I suppose if you have a
determined
end user, they'll screw anything up regardless where it is. That's their
job after all. :/
"vovan" <someone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:u%230oh6CsHHA.3628@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|I know that Vista doesn't allow to do many things in Program Files, so I
| moved my application to C:\MyCompanyNam\MyProgram.
| With the registry everything was fine - Vista moved itself my stuff from
| LocalMachine hive to the other place. It was working on Vista Business.
On
| Vista Home the problem with Registry appeared.
| So I decided to get rid of registry using. I'm going to move registry
stuff
| into INI file located in C:\MyCompanyNam\MyProgram.
|
| vovan
|
| "JP Bless" <jp3BlessNoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| news:OfwLVoCsHHA.4104@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > Slightly off topic...
| > Note that Vista blocks writing to INI file if the INI is located in
| > Program Files. I had a situation where I had to manually copy INI from
| > Program Files to C:\ before I could edit the file. I ran into this
| > situation last week but I have no idea if this is a common/standard
| > problem in Vista
| >
| > "vovan" <someone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| > news:ekaTwlBsHHA.1848@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| >> I'm switching from Registry to INI file to store program settings
(Vista
| >> made me to do that).
| >> I'm trying to use this approach to write to INI file:
| >>
| >> Public Sub WriteKeyValue(sSection As String, sKey As String,
sKeyValue
As
| >> String)
| >> Dim lngResult As Long
| >> lngResult = WritePrivateProfileString(sSection, sKey, sKeyValue,
| >> m_FileName)
| >> End Sub
| >>
| >> I'm getting not separated entries in the INI file like this:
| >> [Section1]
| >> MyKeyValue1=Value1
| >> MyKeyValue2=Value2
| >> MyKeyValue3=Value3
| >> [Section2]
| >> MyKeyValue21=Value21
| >> MyKeyValue22=Value22
| >> MyKeyValue23=Value23
| >> [Section2]
| >> MyKeyValue31=Value31
| >> MyKeyValue32=Value32
| >> MyKeyValue33=Value33
| >>
| >> I checked the format of several existing on my PC INI files and
noticed
| >> that they have separation between sections, like this:
| >> [Section1]
| >> MyKeyValue1=Value1
| >> MyKeyValue2=Value2
| >> MyKeyValue3=Value3
| >>
| >> [Section2]
| >> MyKeyValue21=Value21
| >> MyKeyValue22=Value22
| >> MyKeyValue23=Value23
| >>
| >> [Section2]
| >> MyKeyValue31=Value31
| >> MyKeyValue32=Value32
| >> MyKeyValue33=Value33
| >>
| >> A can add vbNewLine when I'm adding the last Key to the Section.
| >> But because I have a lot of Registry entries I need to move to INI
file
| >> I'm afraid that I will lose control which line is the last one.
| >> I would prefer to add a blank line BEFORE any section. I think it
would
| >> simplify the writing to the file when a new Key is added or the value
of
| >> the existing one is changed.
| >> I used Google but found nothing.
| >>
| >> Thank you
| >> vovan
| >>
| >
| >
|
|
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