comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive
Messages from Usenet group comp.lang.idl-pvwave, compiled by Paulo Penteado

Home » Public Forums » archive » Re: reading regestry on windows system
Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend 
Return to the default flat view Create a new topic Submit Reply
Re: reading regestry on windows system [message #41653 is a reply to message #41598] Fri, 12 November 2004 07:36 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Ralf Schaa is currently offline  Ralf Schaa
Messages: 37
Registered: June 2001
Member
Michael Wiekenberg wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> i'am surching for a posibility to read a key value out of the
> registry.
> My Problem:
> I'd like to save files in a standard path. this is on a unix system
> '~/myprog/'
>
> on a windows system it should be the myprog dir in the personal dir of
> user which is setted in
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Explorer\Shell
> Folders\personal
>
> But how can i read the value of that key to use it in IDL?
>
> Or exists a better methode to get the user dir?
>
> Thanks fpr reading and maybe for thinking about!
> Would be happy about some suggestions or resolutions :]

since I like perl in combination with spawn, I suggest:
Win32::Registry::File - Perl interface to MS-Windows registry files

cheers
-ralf
[Message index]
 
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Read Message
Previous Topic: Legend
Next Topic: XML problems with Linux !!!

-=] Back to Top [=-
[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [ RSS ] [ PDF ]

Current Time: Sun Oct 12 09:01:27 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.63921 seconds