Hi Jim, Thank you for coaching, really helpful! Tiemo
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [email protected] [mailto:use-revolution- > [email protected]] Im Auftrag von Jim Bufalini > Gesendet: Montag, 16. Februar 2009 16:00 > An: 'How to use Revolution' > Betreff: RE: Where to put an ini file on Win with write access for all > users? > > Hi Tiemo, > > > very enlightening, but still some follow up questions :) > > > > I know the word legacy, but am not sure, what is a legacy file? > > Something that for, God knows what reason, Windows feels it needs to > protect > itself against and so it "sandboxes" it. > > > What makes Vista to recognize my Ini.xml as a legacy file, could I give > > it > > another name or dir (and being accessed by all users) to not being a > > legacy > > file and being virtualized? - > > Not sure. You can experiment. > > > Your proposal to use the registry is > > right now > > a too big redesign for me. > > It's your call, but what you need to understand is that disk files are > owned > by user classes. Registry entries are owned by applications. So, once a > user(s) gives an application the right to run, it can access the registry. > This access is identical on XP and Vista and is irrespective of which user > is running the app. > > Here are two little Functions I use to get you started. To use these, your > application should be installed by an installer. All installers will > create > a default entry for your application in the registry in > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\<Your App Name>\ that has the location of your > exe on disk. > > You can confirm this by running regedit after an install. Warning: DO NOT > make ANY changes. Just look! Another caution: The registry is for holding > settings, not data. So don't stick anything large there because the > registry > is read into memory and you don't want to bloat it. > > With all of the above in mind, these two functions are safe to use. Rename > them and put your app name where I've indicated. So if your app is > MyRevApp.exe put in MyRevApp: > > FUNCTION GetRegValue pKey, pType > local tKey > local tResult > ----- > put "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\<Your Application Name Here>\" & pKey > into tKey > IF pType <> empty THEN > put queryregistry(tKey, pType) into tResult > ELSE > put queryregistry(tKey) into tResult -- assumes text > END IF > return tResult -- the actual value > END GetRegValue > ------------------------------------ > FUNCTION SetRegValue pKey, pValue, pType > local tKey > local tResult > ----- > put "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\<Your Application Name Here>\" & pKey > into tKey > IF pType <> empty THEN > put setregistry(tKey,pValue,pType) into tResult > ELSE > put setregistry(tKey,pValue) into tResult -- assumes text > END IF > return tResult -- true or false > END SetRegValue > > Another consideration: If your app is cross OS, you need to use this only > for windows (any version) and not Mac, etc. Since you are only using text > (I > assume), you can forget about pType. pKey can be any name you dream up. > Set > it. Then get it. Windows takes care of saving it off to disk. > > > What you told about SQLite, happens by the way also with my Valentina > > db. > > Right now, I just need read only, but I wouldn't know what to do with > > read/write and virtualization of the db.... > > I am not a Valentina expert, but I'd be very surprised by this. Back Q3 of > 2007, there were lots of complaints by desktop DB users all across the > Internet and all the DB manufacturers had to address this issue. I'm sure > Valentina addressed it, just like SQLite did. Maybe a Valentina expert can > jump in here and tell you and everybody else what to do. > > As to SQLite, as soon as Rev updates the dbsqlite.dll driver to the latest > SQLite engine, you'll be able to use SQLite on Vista without any > virtualization. > > > Thanks for your valuable coaching! > > Tiemo > > Your welcome. > > Jim Bufalini > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
