XWin design suggestion

Alexander Gottwald alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de
Wed May 7 10:54:00 GMT 2003


On Tue, 6 May 2003, Biju wrote:

> 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.

Hey, these are cool 

|Calls to private profile functions may be mapped to the registry instead of 
|to the specified initialization files. This mapping occurs when the initialization 
|file and section are specified in the registry

*g*

bye
	ago
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