2010/9/28 Žilvinas Ledas <[email protected]>: > > On 2010-09-28 09:24, Bo Berglund wrote: >> >> So can I get some advice on: >> - What is the common way to store config data on Linux? >> Ini files are probably not used since they are Windowsisms, >> but is there some other easily used way where one can simply >> store and retrieve individual values without scanning through >> a text file? >> >> - Where is the agreed location for such data? >> > In Lazarus you can use: > function GetAppConfigDirUTF8(Global: Boolean): string; > function GetAppConfigFileUTF8(Global: Boolean; SubDir: boolean = false): > string; > > to get correct config dir/file name in (various versions of) > windows/linux/osx. > > > Regards > Žilvinas
So to summarize there *is* a convention on the file location depending on if the data are user specific or global. The name of the file is the application name preceded by a period. No extension. But there is no convention regarding the format of this file apart from it being in ASCII only. So I could create an IniFile class to handle the config and let it have methods for reading/writing private and global config data into a file which it determines by itself depending on its call. Then I would be doing the right thing? I could use the format of windows ini files (which we are accustomed to) and still be OK on Linux... Methods could be overloaded as: ReadIniString(section, item, default: string); ReadIniString(section, item, default: string; global: boolean); where the first version uses the current user's private area and the second one uses the global area. Otherwise they are identical. -- Bo Berglund -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
