[Gambas-user] Help with a Gambas version of VB registry settings functions?

[Benoît Minisini]

> Hi, everybody. I've been thinking for a while that I'd like to come up with
> a gambas equivalent for the useful 'registry settings' functions included
> in visual basic 6 - obviously they couldn't use the registry in the same
> way, since that doesn't really exist in Linux, but the need for a simple
> way of saving and reloading the last known state of my programs and other
> simple details is something that does carry over. The most important
> routines to me, are:
> 
> SaveSetting (appname, section, key, value) - saves the given value, filed
> by appname, section, and key
> GetSetting (appname, section, key, optional defaultvalue) - returns the
> previous value saved for the given appname, section, and key. If no
> previous value is found, returns defaultvalue if it is supplied, or else
> an empty string.
> 
> GetAllSettings (which returns a two-dimensional array of all keys and
> values for a given appname and section) and DeleteSetting (which clears
> out the previous value for an appname/section/key) would be useful too,
> but not critical.
> 
> So - any suggestions for how best to handle this? I've been wondering about
> the storage medium - if I can actually dynamically write .ini type files,
> or if it would be easier to handle this in a sqlite database format. Also,
> I'm not sure about where to put the files so that they'd be found no
> matter what gambas program is accessing them, (is there a way to find out
> what the user's home directory path is called?) and if I go with sqlite,
> I'd need a way to test to see if my table is already in the sqlite file or
> not.
> 
> Sorry for the rambling-ness. Any replies would be appreciated.

Did you notice the "gb.settings" component?

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Benoît Minisini