Hi Bart,
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:45:49 +0100
> From: bartjun...@gmail.com
> To: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org
> Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Unable to rewrite .ini file which exists... error
> unable to create .ini file. (need to rewrite it).
>
> On 3/15/11, Peter Williams <pewilliams2...@live.com> wrote:
>
> > ConfigIni := TIniFile.Create(ChangeFileExt(Application.ExeName,'.ini'));
>
> You really should not do that in most OS's, even on Windows it is
> deprecated since win9x.
> Most times you will not have write permissions there.
> Also under *nix this location might not be what you expect it to be...
>
> Use GetAppConfigDir to determine where to put INI files.
I found the declaration for function GetAppConfigDir in osutilsh.inc but I
cannot find the actual function (I am looking in the wrong file).
Function GetAppConfigDir(Global : Boolean) : String;Function
GetAppConfigFile(Global : Boolean) : String;Function GetAppConfigFile(Global :
Boolean; SubDir : Boolean) : String;
What is the "Global : Boolean" parameter that it takes? Can someone please give
me an example as to how it is called?
Thanks,PEW
osutilsh.inc ---
{ This file is part of the Free Pascal run time library. Copyright (c)
1999-2000 by Michael Van Canneyt member of the Free Pascal development team
See the file COPYING.FPC, included in this distribution, for details
about the copyright.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
**********************************************************************}
Type TExecuteFlags = Set of ( ExecInheritsHandles);
{ OS handling utilities }
{$ifdef HAS_OSERROR}Function GetLastOSError : Integer;{$endif}Procedure
RaiseLastOSError;Function GetEnvironmentVariable(Const EnvVar : String) :
String;Function GetEnvironmentVariableCount : Integer;Function
GetEnvironmentString(Index : Integer) : String;{$IFDEF HAS_SLEEP}procedure
Sleep(milliseconds: Cardinal);{$ENDIF}function ExecuteProcess(Const Path:
AnsiString; Const ComLine: AnsiString;Flags:TExecuteFlags=[]):integer;function
ExecuteProcess(Const Path: AnsiString; Const ComLine: Array of
AnsiString;Flags:TExecuteFlags=[]):integer;
Function GetTempDir(Global : Boolean) : String;Function GetTempDir :
String;Function GetTempFileName(Const Dir,Prefix : String) : String;Function
GetTempFileName : String;{ For windows compatibility }function
GetTempFileName(Dir,Prefix: PChar; uUnique: DWORD; TempFileName:
PChar):DWORD;Function GetAppConfigDir(Global : Boolean) : String;Function
GetAppConfigFile(Global : Boolean) : String;Function GetAppConfigFile(Global :
Boolean; SubDir : Boolean) : String;Function GetUserDir : String;Function
VendorName : String;Function ApplicationName : String;
Const ConfigExtension : String = '.cfg'; SysConfigDir : String = '';
Type TGetVendorNameEvent = Function : String; TGetAppNameEvent = Function :
String; TGetTempDirEvent = Function (Global : Boolean) : String;
TGetTempFileEvent = Function (Const Dir,Prefix : String) : String;
Type TEventType = (etCustom,etInfo,etWarning,etError,etDebug);
Var OnGetVendorName : TGetVendorNameEvent; OnGetApplicationName :
TGetAppNameEvent; OnGetTempDir : TGetTempDirEvent; OnGetTempFile
: TGetTempFileEvent;
>
> Bart
>
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