OK, Bruce, thanks. I really hoped for something like that. Don't know, why I got it that an INI file only could hold whole numbers.
Have one short question more. When setting the value for an INI key, will I have to perform any further action so as to save the change physically to the file? Or will the set function provided by GW automatically save any changes in the value to my INI file? I did look around, but did see no 'write' or 'save' instructions for the INI file object. Did I overlook something? Thanks again, ----- Original Message ----- From: bb To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 11:15 PM Subject: Re: What is the best way to store a dictionary? Hi Dave, You can look at my Cuckoo Clock app and note that I place fractional values inside my Ini file and you can convert the values back and forth using the CStr() function or the CSng and all those numeric functions to store your data. You can create a dictionary file if you want to load a file from the folder but the advantage inside an Ini file is you can group the stuff and reference the group. It will be blocked off from other parts of the Ini file and easy to edit or extract from. So, look at the numeric translations from string to numbers and you good to go in your Ini file. Bruce Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 5:04 PM Subject: What is the best way to store a dictionary? Obviously I don't know much about storing things, from a script. Smile. My problem is, that I need to store information, holding two 'columns'. I thought at first of using a dictionary. Secondly I was considering the usage of the app's INI file. But I am really not sure any longer, what would be the way to handle this the most smart. Thing is that I need to store info like: Australia 6.5 USA 5.55 Denmark 1.0398 Europe 9.02 As you can see, I will need a set of 'keys', with textual names. These has to go along with a corresponding set of decimal numbers. As I said, I was considering using the INI file. But somehow, I got it from the reference manual of WE, that you only can store integers for the INI file. Is that so, or am I messing up my mind here. I then thought of using the XML file, and store a set of strings there. But these would have to be seperate from other strings in the XML file, or how would my app distinguish them from strings of more general kind in my XML file. Is there a way of 'grouping' strings in the XML? The benefit of the XML, of course, would have been that I could have translated the textual keys into each languge supported; of which there would be no way in the INI file. But it is not a too big problem, since the info the user really would need to get in touch with here, is the set of decimal values; hence he might not care too much of the textual notation. Any good workaround for my issue? Thanks,
