Paul Herring wrote:
> It means application specific data like this should be stored in the
> registry, not in INI files, and you should really be using the
> registry version of those functions for new programs.
>   

I never did like the registry. I would store data in flat files in the 
user's profile, in a platform-independent way. XML is good for this, 
although verbose.

My personal philosophy is that if a user cannot use a text editor to 
edit a program's configuration, or cannot easily copy a configuration 
file to another machine, the configuration is not portable enough. While 
registry entries are exportable and importable, it is a pain to do and 
most users (even experienced ones) would be lost.

-- 
John Gaughan
http://www.jtgprogramming.org/

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