Re: XWin design suggestion

[Biju <bijumaillist at yahoo dot com>]

ago,

--- Alexander Gottwald <Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> If someone will present code which stores such values in a text file and is
> as save as storing it in the registry, I will not raise my voice against 
> this solution. But I can't see the big advantages of the file solution.

Because of the reason I specified earlier, I use Windows API's 
GetPrivateProfileInt, GetPrivateProfileString, WritePrivateProfileString in "kernel32.dll"
to store settings and other things in a *.ini format file.
I also store window size, position etc.
It is fast like a registry (as it cached). And never got any problem with that.

for user specific file location u can use environment variable %userprofile%

also you could use following
SHGetFolderPath.
SHGetSpecialFolderPath
SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
CSIDL_APPDATA

Links
GetPrivateProfileInt
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/getprivateprofileint.asp

WritePrivateProfileString
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/writeprivateprofilestring.asp

GetPrivateProfileString
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/getprivateprofilestring.asp

SHGetSpecialFolderPath
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/shgetspecialfolderpath.asp
SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/shgetspecialfolderlocation.asp

CSIDL
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/enums/csidl.asp




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