Write to registry and ini file

[redlair]

In two seperate projects I need to change a path in the registry and in an ini file. For the registry I have found multiple methodes to writing to the registry. What is the most direct way to change to path in a key.

 

[Sheco]

The following 2 are the easiest for INI files... there are a few others as well depending on what you are trying to do.

'Win32 API for reading INI file:
Private Declare Function GetPrivateProfileString Lib "kernel32" _
        Alias "GetPrivateProfileStringA" _
        (ByVal lpApplicationName As String, _
        ByVal lpKeyName As Any, _
        ByVal lpDefault As String, _
        ByVal lpReturnedString As String, _
        ByVal nSize As Long, _
        ByVal lpFileName As String) As Long

'Win32 API for writing to INI file:
Private Declare Function WritePrivateProfileString Lib "kernel32" _
        Alias "WritePrivateProfileStringA" _
        (ByVal lpApplicationName As String, _
        ByVal lpKeyName As Any, _
        ByVal lpString As Any, _
        ByVal lpFileName As String) As Long

 

[redlair]

Sheco, Thank you I will give this a try, it is a start. What do you know about the registry write.

 

[tsdragon]

The VB registry functions probably will not work for you, depending on the entries you need to change. VB's registry functions work only on a small subset of the registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\application-name\section-name).

You can call the windows API registry functions, but I've never done that so I can't help with it.


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For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[ZmrAbdulla]

For saving into registry Have a Search on two keywords

SaveSetting
GetSetting

Regards

Zameer Abdulla
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[johnwm]

The APIs for registry operation all start with REG

Start here:

http://www.mentalis.org/apilist/r.shtml

For INI files start here:

http://www.mentalis.org/apilist/GetPrivateProfileString.shtml

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