petesouthwest wrote:
> Thought I would start a new topic as this was kinda different to the
> last question.
>
> I liked the idea of using a GUID as a key in the registry, so I've
> been looking at that method.
The parts of the registry that require GUIDs are well documented.
They're usually the COM-registration regions, or the MS Installer
settings. If you're not putting your information in any of those places,
then I'd recommend using something that's a little more readable than a
GUID.
> Do I generate the GUID on my development machine and use
> it 'statically' in my code? Something like:
> MyAppGUID : TGuid = ['{15755161-D506-11D3-8BF9-005004B21322}']
>
> If I generate it dynamically, it seems to change each time.
>
> I must admit that I thought from what I had read that the GUID would
> be the same for a particular application each time it was run.
If you got the same value every time, it would hardly be "globally
unique" anymore, would it?
Maybe you're thinking of Delphi's random-number generator, which
generates the same sequence of random numbers for a given seed.
--
Rob
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