Delphi Programming question

What i want to do is to write a binary value (record called Settings) into the registry as a binary instead of to a file. It is 176 bytes in length and for the life of me i can't get the WriteBinaryData to work.  I know this will be something simple. Could someone please post me a small sample of code that i need and what parms to put where to get this procedure working. and how do you tell it what binary data to write to it.

Thanks.
Dane.

--- Cut From Delphi 2 Help File.

Applies to

TRegistry object, TRegIniFile object

Declaration

procedure WriteBinaryData(const Name: string; var Buffer; BufSize: Integer);
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Dane PickeringAsked:
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erajojConnect With a Mentor Commented:
Hi again!

This really simple code does, hopefully, what you want.

procedure TMainForm.Button15Click(Sender: TObject);
type
  TTestRec = record
    Name  : string[10];
    Number: Comp;
  end;
var
  Ini: TRegistry;
  Rec: TTestRec;
begin
  Ini := TRegistry.Create;
  if Ini.OpenKey('\software\Dane\Recs', True)
  then begin
    with Rec do begin
      Name := 'Dane';
      Number := 8630007314.0;
    end;
    Ini.WriteBinaryData('TestBuffer', Rec, SizeOf(TTestRec));

    FillChar(Rec, SizeOf(TTestRec), 0); // Clear record contents

    Ini.ReadBinaryData('TestBuffer', Rec, SizeOf(TTestRec));
    with Rec do begin
      Caption := Format('%s - %.0f', [Name, Number]);
    end;
  end;
  Ini.Free;
end;

Enjoy!

/// John
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erajojCommented:
Send the code and i'll have a look.

/// John
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Dane PickeringAuthor Commented:
i have no code to give, thats what i need a small sample of code with the correct way ti write a record to a registry. i need to know the correct way to do this.

Regards,
Dane.
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Dane PickeringAuthor Commented:
Ok, well that worked and that is exactly the same way that i was trying to get it to work. Umm, i couldn't see any difference, but al least it works. So you can have the points!

Thanks mate!

Regards,
Dane
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erajojCommented:
Well, thanks alot for the nil-pointer... :-)

/// John

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