I'm a new Windows programmer and I'm not sure where I should store user configurable application settings. I understand the need to provide a user friendly means for the user to change application settings, like an Edit | Settings form or similar. But where should I store the values after the user hits the Apply button on that form? ...
I'm trying to parse an INI file using C++. Any tips on what is the best way to achieve this? Should I use the Windows API tools for INI file processing (with which I am totally unfamiliar), an open-source solution or attempt to parse it manually? ...
I was just tinkering around with calling GetPrivateProfileString and GetPrivateProfileSection in kernel32 from .NET and came across something odd I don't understand. Let's start with this encantation: Private Declare Unicode Function GetPrivateProfileString Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetPrivateProfileStringW" ( _ ByVal lpApplication...
if I call php's parse_ini_file("foo.ini"), in what paths does it look for foo.ini ? the include path? the function's documentation doesn't mention it. ...
This is something simple I came up with for this question. I'm not entirely happy with it and I saw it as a chance to help improve my use of STL and streams based programming. std::wifstream file(L"\\Windows\\myini.ini"); if (file) { bool section=false; while (!file.eof()) { std::wstring line; std::getline(file, line); ...
I am writing a drop-in replacement for a legacy application in Java. One of the requirements is that the ini files that the older application used have to be read as-is into the new Java Application. The format of this ini files is the common windows style, with header sections and key=value pairs, using # as the character for commenti...
Using WritePrivateProfileString and GetPrivateProfileString results in ??? instead of the real characters. ...
Does anyone know a good C++ class to read (and possibly also write) INI files on Windows Mobile? Ideally this class sould work on Windows mobile 2003, 5 and 6 and be public domain but other alternatives may be interesting. ...
What is the best way to encrypt a value in INI file? Using Encryption/Decryption key?? ...
I have read many articles about how to use an INI file within my VB6 project. I don't have a problem with the methods, my problem is how to make the EXE file find the INI file. I don't want to hard code the path in the program. I simply want the EXE to expect the INI file to be present in the same folder the EXE is executed from. When I...
Hello Friends actually i and my friend are trying to learn and use eclipse 3.4 and we are having some heap memory issue while working, and my friend suggested to increase the memory allocation to eclipse ide as he has 4GB RAM and he wants to allocate enough heap, allocate decent perm size, and enable parallel garbage collection to this ...
Hi I encrypted some text and put it in a INI file. Then I used getprivateprofilestring() to retrieve the value but some of the end characters are missing. I suspect it may be a new line character causing it to be incomplete. Writing to the INI file is OK. Opening the INI file and looking at the sections and keys - everything is in order...
Are any methods available in VBA to read and write INI files? I know I could use; Open "C:\test.ini" For Input As #1 ...and parse the data. Instead I am trying to see what tools are already available. I know in C# you can do... using INI; INIFile ini = new INIFile("C:\test.ini"); Is there an equivalent for VBA? I am attempting ...
At work we use a .ini file to set variables prior to calling the rest of the framework (I think it goes function getConfigVars(){ //read my_config.ini file .... //call framework } and I have always wondered if there was a benefit to doing it that way. It seems to me that you then have to write access rules to stop people ...
I am writing a PHP application that will have the ability to edit settings through a web interface. I didn't mean for the user (and actually, it will only be admins) to be able to load the file up in a text editor, but rather, they make a change using a form, and that will change the settings file (and do other things as well). At this ...
I'm trying to create an Enum that has a string label and a value and I plan to use this to read stuff from an ini file. For example in the ini file I might have some double, int or string type values preceded by the tag/name of the value: SomeFloat = 0.5 SomeInteger = 5 FileName = ../Data/xor.csv When I read the tag from a file it co...
Hello, I have an MFC app which is wizard based. The App asks a user a variable number of questions which are then written to an INI file which is later encrypted when the user clicks Finish. All the INI file parsers I have seen so far seen read or write to a physical file on Disk. I don't want to do this as the INI file contains con...
I am trying to increase the value of upload_max_filesize to 10485760 (10M). I am using: ini_set('upload_max_filesize',10485760); This is always returning false and the upload_max_filesize continues to be 2M. I am using php 5.2.8 on windows and I don't have the ini_set disabled and am also not with safe mode on. Anyone know why this ...
My config file looks like this: title = myTitle; otherTitle = myOtherTitle; when I read the file with file(), it creates this array [0] => title = myTitle; [1] => otherTitle = myOtherTitle; and what I want the array to look like is [title] => myTitle; [otherTitle] => myOtherTitle; Am I using the wrong approach her? Should i just...
Basically, I want to have my program retrieve various variables from the hard drive disk for use in the program. I guess, before asking for details, I should verify that is even possible. Is it? If it is, what is the best way? I've seen the use of .ini files, but I don't know how to retrieve data specifically from .ini files. Is it the ...