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Reading and Righting to registry

Hey i have been trying to find everywhere a good tutorial that would actualy work for me but unfortunately i have not been able to what i want to do is open up a key in the registry using visual basics api. What i want to open up is the key located under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Valve\Half-Life\InstallPath and then get the install path from there. What im lookin for in the answer is an exmple piece of code that will get that also its a reg_sv variable just incase you need to know for the answer. What i want is an example with the appropriat comments that will get that and teach me how to input that data OR a website that will tell me how (must work for vb 6.0).

bukko

Use WScript.Shell

...I'll put some code together and post.

bukko

bukko

Public Function GetRegValue( strRegPath As String ) As String
Dim objWSH As Object

Set objWSH = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
GetRegValue = objWSH.RegRead( strRegPath )

Set objWSH = Nothing

End Function

To use...

MyValue = GetRegValue("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Valve\Half-Life\InstallPath")
Debug.Print MyValue

Regards

bukko

bukko

To write...

Public Function SetRegValue( strRegPath As String, strValue As String ) As String
Dim objWSH As Object

Set objWSH = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
objWSH.RegWrite strRegPath, strValue

Set objWSH = Nothing

End Function

To use...

SetRegValue "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Valve\Half-Life\InstallPath", strMyValue

Regards

bukko

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asdf103100

ASKER

what does the script do? also its comming back with the problem that the key is not found

asdf103100

ASKER

what does the script do? also its comming back with the problem that the key is not found