I have an app I'm working on and I'm not sure how to handle it's registry entries. All the settings are stored in the registry and I'm not quite sure how to handle that. I know I'm supposed to put them into an .ini but where do I go from there? Do I copy them to the registry when the app runs then copy them from the registry in the .ini when the app closes? If so can somebody give me a line of code as example. Bare with me it's hard to pick examples out of the huge launchers.
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You don't move the registry info into an ini. Registry stuff backs up a local copy, moves the portable settings into place (if they exist, otherwise it lets the app create the defaults), then on close moves the portable settings to a .reg file in the /Data/settings directory, and moves the local settings back.
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try this:
Got it from:
http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/makensis.htm#ReadRegStr
and
http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/makensis.htm#WriteINIStr
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Grab the PuTTY Portable launcher. It's probably the simplest example of it.
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