[Gambas-user] Write-Read from text file

[Eilert]

Jacky schrieb:
> Le Mardi 27 Juin 2006 08:43, Eilert a écrit :
>> Jose J. Rodriguez schrieb:
>>> On 6/26/06, LinuxSeeker <linuxseeker at ...626...> wrote:
>>>> I am writing a program that needs to interact with the user and save the
>>>> user's preferences (name, number of textboxes etc) in a text file (named
>>>> "conf") at the same directory where the executable is located.
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>>  Any suggestions on how to make this work? How can I update the
>>>> configuration file without re-writing the entire configuration file? How
>>>> do I select which line to read from?
>>> You should consider using the Gambas component gb.settings
>>> (Application settings management):
>>> http://www.gambasdoc.org/help/comp/gb.settings
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Joe1962
>> Hi Jose,
>>
>> Thanks for this tip - never knew about this thing. But it's heavily
>> undocumented, I doubt he'll get it to work as even I have some problems
>> understanding how it would work.
>>
>> If you know how to handle it, shouldn't we develop some easy examples?
>>
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> 
>> - initiating a new ini-file
>> - reading from the ini-file
>> - writing values into it
>> - replacing values
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Rolf
> 
> Salut,
> 
> With settings component Gambas create automaticaly a new file whose name is 
> your program name with the .conf extension locate in /home/user/.gambas for 
> gambas1
> to update it see example below.
> Type = "mysql"
> Name = "test"
> Login = "user"
> Password = "123456"
> Version = "1.00"
> Settings["/dbase/Type"] = Type
> Settings["/dbase/Name"] = Name
> Settings["/dbase/Login"] = login.
> Settings["/dbase/Password"] = Password
> Settings["/Version"] = Version
> 
> to read it
> Type = Settings["/dbase/Type"]
> Name = Settings["/dbase/Name"] 
> Login = Settings["/dbase/Login"]
> Password = Settings["/dbase/Password"]
> Version = Settings["/Version"]
> 


Ah, ok, but is it possible to take any influence on the place and name 
of the file? And is it possible to manage several files?

And I'm missing .Read and .Write in your example. Not necessary?

Rolf