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This is my first post to the forums, although I've been reading them for a while. I have a kinda simple Registry Key Setting question, and it's probably something I sould know anyways, but here goes:
I want to make it so that my program can write a key into HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\(you know the path)\RunServices\
So that it'll run as a service at startup. I already programmed it to be able to do so, using the API. But for some reason, I can't find out how to do this...wow. Any help would be appreciated. And hey, I'm here to help too. Just don't ask me about the API :)
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Do you want to know how to save a retrieve values from the Registry? If so, use this.
Code:
Public Const HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT = &H80000000
Public Const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001
Public Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002
Public Const HKEY_USERS = &H80000003
Public Const HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA = &H80000004
Declare Function RegCloseKey Lib "advapi32.dll" (ByVal hkey As Long) As Long
Declare Function RegCreateKey Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegCreateKeyA" (ByVal hkey As Long, ByVal lpSubKey As String, phkResult As Long) As Long
Declare Function RegDeleteKey Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegDeleteKeyA" (ByVal hkey As Long, ByVal lpSubKey As String) As Long
Declare Function RegDeleteValue Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegDeleteValueA" (ByVal hkey As Long, ByVal lpValueName As String) As Long
Declare Function RegOpenKey Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegOpenKeyA" (ByVal hkey As Long, ByVal lpSubKey As String, phkResult As Long) As Long
Declare Function RegQueryValueEx Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegQueryValueExA" (ByVal hkey As Long, ByVal lpValueName As String, ByVal lpReserved As Long, lpType As Long, lpData As Any, lpcbData As Long) As Long
Declare Function RegSetValueEx Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "RegSetValueExA" (ByVal hkey As Long, ByVal lpValueName As String, ByVal Reserved As Long, ByVal dwType As Long, lpData As Any, ByVal cbData As Long) As Long
Function RegQueryStringValue(ByVal hkey As Long, ByVal strValueName As String)
Dim lResult As Long
Dim lValueType As Long
Dim strBuf As String
Dim lDataBufSize As Long
On Error GoTo 0
lResult = RegQueryValueEx(hkey, strValueName, 0&, lValueType, ByVal 0&, lDataBufSize)
If lResult = ERROR_SUCCESS Then
If lValueType = REG_SZ Then
strBuf = String(lDataBufSize, " ")
lResult = RegQueryValueEx(hkey, strValueName, 0&, 0&, ByVal strBuf, lDataBufSize)
If lResult = ERROR_SUCCESS Then
RegQueryStringValue = StripTerminator(strBuf)
End If
End If
End If
End Function
Public Function GetString(hkey As Long, strpath As String, strvalue As String)
Dim keyhand&
Dim datatype&
r = RegOpenKey(hkey, strpath, keyhand&)
GetString = RegQueryStringValue(keyhand&, strvalue)
r = RegCloseKey(keyhand&)
End Function
Function StripTerminator(ByVal strString As String) As String
Dim intZeroPos As Integer
intZeroPos = InStr(strString, Chr$(0))
If intZeroPos > 0 Then
StripTerminator = Left$(strString, intZeroPos - 1)
Else
StripTerminator = strString
End If
End Function
Public Sub savestring(hkey As Long, strpath As String, strvalue As String, strdata As String)
Dim keyhand&
r = RegCreateKey(hkey, strpath, keyhand&)
r = RegSetValueEx(keyhand&, strvalue, 0, REG_SZ, ByVal strdata, Len(strdata))
r = RegCloseKey(keyhand&)
End Sub
Usage
Code:
Private Sub Command1_Click()
'Save a Value to the Registry
savestring HKEY_CURRENT_USER, "Software\Myapp", "Testing", "Hello"
End Sub
Private Sub Command2_Click()
'Get a value from the Registry
Retval = GetString(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, "Software\Myapp", "Testing")
Print Retval
End Sub
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