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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: reg keys
From:       Adriaan de Groot <adridg () cs ! kun ! nl>
Date:       2003-07-17 9:28:09
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On Thursday 17 July 2003 10:29, Ryan wrote:
> ok ok , you guys are great.  My situation is trying to port the
> following funcs
> RegCreateKeyEx
> RegCloseKey
> RegSetValueEx
> RegOpenKeyEx
> RegQueryValueEx
> RegDeleteValue

How touching that you presume we are so familiar with the Windows API as to 
know what this means. IIRC, the Windows Registry is a  tree (of keys), where 
the leaves of the tree carry values. KDE has no such tree based configuration 
system (you might try gconf for that).

A grep for "configuration", or heaven forbid, "configuration file" on KDE's 
headers would have helped some.

What KDE _does_ have is KConfig, which can in theory support multiple backends 
- - but doesn't, since no compelling reason to dump the existing Windows 
.ini-style backend has been found yet. For a foolish look-n-feel port,

#define RegSetValueEx(a,b) KConfig().writeEntry(a,b)

could be a start (I thought there used to be a kApp->config(), but can't find 
it now ... oh, it's KGlobal::config()). 



> They interact with the registry.  The idea is just to check settings or
> install values for a function.  Some are taken care by KDE, I know, but
> we're trying to keep the code have the same feel.  Less work in the long
> run.  I could even use file and parse it manually, but that would take
> some time.  I was hoping there was some K class I could use instead, or
> even a qt class.

You might try asking someone from a distribution that is tied closely to 
Windows - where surely the problem of reading Windows configurations has been 
tackled before - for help.

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