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I have a custom active X. On that property page I've added 3 CEdit controls. What's the best way to save those values so when I use the control again, the boxes are prepopulated with them.

Thanks,

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AndyAinscow

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cophi

ASKER

Hey AndyAinscow, that sounds good but could you provide an example?

AndyAinscow

Check in the help file - I'm out of the office for the next hour or so. sorry.

AndyAinscow

eg.
      CRegKey regKey;
      if(SUCCEEDED(regKey.Open(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, _T("SOFTWARE\\MYAPP"))))
      {
            regKey.SetStringValue(_T("Benutzer"), _T("Me"));
      }

mahesh1402

You may refer this 'CRegSettings - registry helper class' Src Code :

http://www.codeproject.com/system/regsettings.asp <===== Simple class to store application settings in registry

-MAHESH

mahesh1402

Above is easy to use as to Load use and Save From and To Registry.

//Call constructor to set values
CMySettings settings(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, "Software\\%s\\%s\\%i", "MyCompany", "MyApplication", intValue);

..
settings.Load(); // Load configuration

... // use values settings.Value1 etc.

settings.Save(); // Save configuration

Refer above link CMySettings class src files for more.

-MAHESH

mahesh1402

Alternatively you have look at this : http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/siv_settings.asp <==Simple settings implementation

This one saves settings in text file. Dialog application demo with Edit controls are there to demonstrate saving settings.

-MAHESH

cophi

ASKER

Why does this fail???

#define GLOBALREGKEY HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
#define GLOBALREGLOCATION "ABC\\Test\\Configurations"

if(l_regKey.Create(GLOBALREGKEY, GLOBALREGLOCATION, REG_NONE, REG_OPTION_NON_VOLATILE, KEY_WRITE)==ERROR_SUCCESS)

AndyAinscow

Extract from help.
If successful, returns ERROR_SUCCESS and opens the key. If the method fails, the return value is a nonzero error code defined in WINERROR.H.

long lRet = l_regKey.Create(GLOBALREGKEY, GLOBALREGLOCATION, REG_NONE, REG_OPTION_NON_VOLATILE, KEY_WRITE);
if(lRet==ERROR_SUCCESS)
{
Do your stuff
}
else
{
TRACE("Create failed with %ld\n", lRet);
}

What do you get as the returned value in the TRACE output?

cophi

ASKER

cophi

ASKER

#define GLOBALREGLOCATION "ABC\\Test\\Configurations"

apparantly 87 is invalid parameter.

does the globalreglocation have to be a location thats already created. I figured this would create the whole 'tree' for you.

cophi

ASKER

Um apparantly it didn't like HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
HKEY_CURRENT_USER worked??

Any ideas y

AndyAinscow

User rights - could it be you don't have suitable rights to modify keys in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE ?