Hi Brendon
In todays day and age, you have additional options (some at no cost) that
might perform better then reading ini files and parsing text. Depending on
need, you might take a look at http://www.updatestage.com and see if you can
find a list saving xtra. I know they sell an xtra called vList ( its on the
very bottom of the left hand frame of the main page of their xtras section).
This is one hell of a nice xtra that can be used to read and save to lists
in their native binary format. Since most reuseable data that you are
looking at most likely will be internalized within Director as a list, this
option makes a lot of sense. It saves the hassles of dealing with
differences cross platform differences and text parsing and all that
stuff... just shove the data into a list and give it a filename and send a
saveList command and your done.
I've used this xtra for some time now and I have to say its been a pleasure
to work with.. not sure how I worked without it.
(No I don't work for updatestage.. its just an excellent tool... and for
what you described, I believe its free).
Sincerely
Mark R. Jonkman
-----Original Message-----
From: Brendon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 7:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: <lingo-l> Reading from an ini file
I want to make my next director project a little more reuseable. i was
wondering if any one had any links to sites or ini file reading
functions
that could help with storing settings externally. Do i need an xtra to
read
text/ini files of the same cd? i'd prefer not to.
Cheers
Brendon
[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to
http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list,
email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to
http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list,
email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
