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This API lets you use the standard Windows functions to read or update initialization files.
Note that modern 32-bit Windows applications generally use the registry to store configuration data. However INI files are seeing a resurgence for several reasons: there are significant advantages to using ini files because they can be more easily distributed with your application, more easily backed up, can be shared in a common location for multiple users on a local area network, can be managed without administrative privileges, and edited with a standard text editor.
For these reasons, Microsoft has significantly backed off its suggestion to rely solely on the registry.
This API will maintain .ini files located on the client.
To maintain .ini files on the server:
SET WIN32API-EXECUTE-API-ON-SERVER TO TRUE |
Files available to copy to your system:
Retrieves a string from the specified section of an initialization file.
Copies a string into the specified section of an initialization file.
Copies multiple strings into the specified section of an initialization file.
COPY WIN32API.
* ------------------------: Call the API.
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Note: The keys and section names are NOT case sensitive.
Name of the [Section].
Your name for this data item. You can store multiple data items under the same [Section] name.
For Write functions:
Text data associated with your key.
Note: Binary values are unsupported; this must be TEXT data. If you're storing numeric data, save it as DISPLAY, not binary (COMP-4 or COMP-5) format.
For GET: Number of bytes returned to your program; if your buffer was not large enough, number of bytes required.
Name of the .INI file.
For Write functions: If you do not specify a full path, create in the Windows directory.
For Get functions: If you do not specify a full path, looks in the Windows directory.
This argument is standard for all CALLs to GSWINAPI. It is used to select the desired API or function, and to return the status of the operation.
Used to return the status of a call to GSWINAPI. A value of zero is a failure, any other value indicates success.
Recommended usage is to test the 88-level value WIN32API to see if it worked, then to use the text error message to see why it failed.
* ------------------------: If function failed,
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Error code that was returned by Windows. This is not generally useful unless you have the Windows Platform SDK documentation available to you.
Plain-text error message that describes why the operation failed.
The number of these present varies depending on how many arguments are used by the desired function. These are not used, but must be present because this CALL requires seven arguments.
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