Philip, I understand your decision to include it completely, though I
still can't say I agree. Still if your paying customers request it, it
is understandable.

Kai, I did not question registry support because it was redundant. I
questioned it because Microsoft's prinsipals from which they built the
registry is flawed and dangerous. This could lead to unhappy users of
bgt games where someone for example decided to (accidentally?) dump
1000000 2048 kb values into a registry that usually has a size < 10mb.
This would have an effect on the whole operating system of the user.
There is also no way to control the automatic removal of these keys if
a user deletes the bgt script. To my mind it just didn't seem worth
the extra effort for no gain and a big risk.





On 11/21/11, Thomas Ward <thomasward1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Willem,
>
> Well, for what its worth I completely agree with you about the
> registry. I've always thought the Windows registry was a bad idea on
> Microsoft's part, and never use it myself because I can serialize,
> encrypt, and write the same data to a file on the hard drive thus
> invalidating any need for a registry in the first place. Plus even
> Microsoft recommends using the registry sparingly for the same reasons
> you mention. So I personally choose to avoid it altogether.
>
> As for using plane text ini or conf files you have a point, but I
> still contend serialization is the best way to handle it for most
> practical situations. Plus the .Net Framework has serialization
> functions that will save serialized data to an xml file that can be
> edited but has the ease of use of binary serialization. That to me is
> really the best of both worldsas you have the ease of use of the
> serialize and deserialize functions, but write the data to a plane
> text  xml file that can later be edited by hand.
>
> Cheers!
>
> On 11/20/11, Willem Venter <dwill...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Thomas.
>> While I hear what you say about ease of use of the built in functions
>> of dot net for serializing and writing to the registry, sometimes
>> reading a file gives valuable insight to a problem and altering
>> something doesn't require a hex editor or custom loader for your file.
>>
>> In my opinion the registry has no functionality that you can't
>> duplicate by using a file. Philip could even have emulated
>> registry-like behavior by using a file. The larger the registry
>> becomes, the longer it takes to find something in it.
>
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