writing/reading to the Windows Registry

I'm pretty sure you can't, but there are a couple of other ways to do this.

You can create a property that's attached to the design. The propery value could be a assoc list of prop/value pairs. See axlDBCreatePropDictEntry.

Another way is to write the data to a file and attach it to the design see the axlXXXAttachment commands.

-craig

Those sound like good ideas. I haven't done either of those things in skill yet, I must check them out.

 Thanks Craig

 Hi Geoff,

 You can at least write to the Windows registry. Using any text file with a REG extension, you can specify the path to the key and its value. I suggest exporting your registry and taking a look to see the proper syntax.

I find using setx.exe, to control user and system env variables, to be an easier way to control the configuration of user systems. You can find setx.exe as part of the Windows XP Support Tools, from MS' website. You can then embed intelligence by using traditional logic to read/write env vars. Without a better idea of what you're trying to accomplish I can't say for sure whether setx.exe might work for you, but I suggest at least taking a look at it.

As far as reading from the registry, I'm sorry, but I don't know how to do that.

Thanks Evan. I'll have to try some of those things out when I have time. Unfortunately I am super busy laying out boards.

The way I do it now: when a skill program closes, the current settings are stored in a file on disk, so that next time the program is used it loads those stored settings. I think storing it in the registy is cleaner because you don't need a file on disk. I have done it in Visual Basic, and I like it.

- Geoff

You certainly can read and write to the registry. I use SETX and REG QUERY. However that limits you to saving the information on only the current PC. The information is lost if you change PCs or someone else opens the design. I prefer to save such information in properties of the design.

Dave