ini files

[tino]

I'm makeing a small program that edits an ini file, it works but the problem is that the ini file that I am editing's titles are formated like this: [ title ] unless I manualy chainge them to: [title] it doesn't work.

I have tryed: lpappname = " title " but it still doesn't work unless the format in the ini is [title]

TIA,
Alex

[rbnwares]

What do u mean?

[tino]

the program will only retrive information from the ini file if the titles in the ini are writen like this: [title] if they are writen as [ title ] I get an error mesage e.g.

[Joy]
allow_force_feedback=1
force_feedback_damping=150.000000
force_feedback_latency=0.025000
max_steering_torque=300.000000

but in the actual ini they are writen like this:

[ Joy ]
allow_force_feedback=1
force_feedback_damping=150.000000
force_feedback_latency=0.025000
max_steering_torque=300.000000

how do I specify that there will be spaces between the [ and the title in my VB code e.g.

lpappname = "joy"

lpappname = " joy " doesn't work

[Simus]

what's the code you use to get the content of the ini file, the api functions or you have made them on your own?

[mikef]

Use API functions. It is SO easy once you used the API.

I also had the same trouble.

[tino]

yep I'm useing the API functions and it works fine apart from those bloudy spaces

[Quintonir]

I do not use API when I can use plain VB code. Why don't you remove the punctation manually?


Quintonir

[mikef]

hmmm...that is interesting....

I had the problem with the spaces when I used plain VB code, but when I changed to API function the problem was gone.

I got the code snippet from a user here named Matthew Gates. Maybe he can direct you further.....he seems to be VERY knowlegable.

[tino]

I have maualy edited it but I'm planning to distribute the program and I couldn't expect everyone else to do that. How could I use plain VB code to do the Same thing without over complicateing things?

[Quintonir]

Shall I state a self-made Replace() function?

[alex_read]

If you are using VB6, you could use the REPLACE function to format these spaces :

Dim StrFile as String
StrFile = "C:\Name_Of_File.ini"

Replace "[ ", StrFile, "["
Replace " ]", StrFile, "]"

This will only work if there's one space between the bracket & the word, and I am 99% sure that this is only for VB6. But, it might be able to help you, use the above before you retrieve the ini file information.

[BS]

I use API and don't have this problem
se my module

[tino]

I can't seem to get that module working, could you post some sample code?

this is the module I was useing:

Public Declare Function WritePrivateProfileString _
Lib "kernel32" Alias "WritePrivateProfileStringA" _
(ByVal lpApplicationname As String, _
ByVal lpKeyName As Any, _
ByVal lsString As Any, _
ByVal lplFilename As String) As Long


Public Declare Function GetPrivateProfileInt _
Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetPriviteProfileIntA" _
(ByVal lpApplicationname As String, _
ByVal lpKeyName As String, _
ByVal nDefault As Long, _
ByVal lpFileName As String) As Long


Public Declare Function GetPrivateProfileString _
Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetPrivateProfileStringA" _
(ByVal lpApplicationname As String, _
ByVal lpKeyName As String, _
ByVal lpDefault As String, _
ByVal lpReturnedString As String, _
ByVal nSize As Long, _
ByVal lpFileName As String) As Long

TIA,
Alex

[BS]

Here we Go.
Some of the variables are there only to help debugging
Hope it help you
Benny