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wargamer
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I once downloaded a dll called inifiles.dll which contains functions to read and write .ini files, but I can't remember where I got it from and have no documentation on it :-s . Anyone know what the functions are and how to use them?


There are some similar functions in KRNL386.exe (GetPrivateProfieString etc) but as it's not a proper dll you can't use LOAD DLL etc. Any thoughts on how to take this approach?

Any other suggesttions??
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Posted: 30th Jul 2003 17:19
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I think MrTatoad has a plugin similar to the one you mentioned on his home software site. I forgot the link but maybe he will post here and there is documentation available on his site for the plugin i think

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Posted: 30th Jul 2003 19:28
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Forgotten the link ? Deary me... I obviously dont post enough...


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Posted: 31st Jul 2003 01:18
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Thanks Toad, I'm not worthy!

But is there an easier way to extract the string data than using calloc and peekstring$? (I haven't installed that plugin yet).

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Posted: 31st Jul 2003 01:40 Edited at: 31st Jul 2003 01:43
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No, because it returns a status value (success or failure) + the result. Its not actually a status values, its more like the number of characters in the buffer. I may re-do it (much) later to be more DBPro 'friendly'...


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Put the source in the button in a separate file and 'include' it into your project.

You would use it like this:

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Thanks guys - will now try both approaches.

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Prefably the plug-in way, of course...


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Posted: 31st Jul 2003 18:29
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@Toady

I think you need to change the way your plugins work. Wouldn't it be easier to have the INI read command return the string (or a blank string if nothing was found), and then an INI OPERATION SUCCESS() function which returns 0 or 1 depending on whether or not the last operation worked?


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The problem is I dont know the size of the string read - I would have to limit it and then pass the string back. I'm thinking of limiting it to say, 64K; any more, and it gets truncated; less and its okay.


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And the result was......

I used IanM's approach and it works fine (sorry Toady, I'm all for the easy life!)

One thing tho' Ian - I actually used the raw dll calls and for reading integers the call should be to:

GetPrivateProfileIntA (ie with an "A" on the end), at least in WinXP

Thanks again, both of you.

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Oops, how did I make that mistake?

I'll update my library code. Thanks
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Fair enough... I suppose...


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An easy way to find put what functions are in a dll is to open the following folders...

compiler
user-plugins

there is a bat-file!
duplicate it

then change the copied file with editor
to change are the mentioned dll file to yours (of course you have to copy yours into the folder) and the output file (txt)

run the bat-file! ta-dah!!!
in the output file you will find all funcs of the dll!!!

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@ Ian

I was using your code very gratefully until I needed to use the "WritePrivateProfileInt" function and found that the DLL doesn't have it. The "GetPrivateProfileIntA" is there, but the former isn't both with and with out the extra A added.

Is there a work around this or am I missing something?

I have Win XP

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There is no actual function for writing integers - I have one in my plug-in though, which gets around this problem...
However, if your not using P5, then it wont work...


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I assumed that as their was a function in IanM's function list called "WritePrivateProfileInt" that it was the optimum way to do that, thanks for the info Toady

However I'm going to wait until the official release of P5 so I can build my project on a more stable foundation.

I'll just have to wait.

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Errr ... whoops
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I suggest you bounce along to my web site and download the appropriate plug-in - that can handle strings & integers...


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... or just replace the 'Int' functions with these:

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Posted: 4th Aug 2003 22:31 Edited at: 4th Aug 2003 22:33
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Wondering how long it would take you to do a couple of functions.
Whats wrong with GetPrivateProfileInt though ??

I still recommend my plug-ins though...


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Ok, smart-pants
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Who? Me ?


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Is there any way to store floating point values in an INI? I've seen other programs do it, but the functions by IanM don't seem to recall anything after the decimal point.

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Its easy enough to do - might add it later to my plug-in...


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Posted: 5th Aug 2003 20:13 Edited at: 5th Aug 2003 20:13
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You could just make alternate versions of the Int code, like this:



I don't know how much precision that STR$() keeps when it makes the string though...
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I already had one for reading - just need to do one for writing


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