Quick registry lesson

[Smie]

how to i set a button to save what a text box says, and set a second button to display what was saved into the registry when the save button was pressed. I played around with the settings for a while and still cant understand....thanks

[Aaron Young]

For this example I'm using the VB functions SaveSetting and GetSetting, the same rules would apply if you were using the APIs:

On a Form with a Textbox and 2 Command Buttons..

Private Sub Command1_Click()
'Save the Text to the Registry
SaveSetting App.Title, "Test", "SavedText", Text1
End Sub

Private Sub Command2_Click()
'Retrieve the Text from the Registry
'Use "Nothing Saved." As a Default Value
'If nothing is in the Registry.
Text1 = GetSetting(App.Title, "Test", "SavedText", "Nothing Saved.")
End Sub



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[ShadowCrawler]

The problem with SaveSetting and GetSetting is that your application data is stored in a few VB subkeys, which is bad. You need to use SaveSetting[String/Long/DWord] and GetSetting[String/Long/DWord] to have complete control over the entire registry.

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[Compwiz]

Take a look at this article on this site: http://www.vb-world.net/registry/registry2/

It has what you need.

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