hello,
On 21 April 2013 10:43, Eluze <elu...@gmail.com> wrote: > ArnoldTheresius wrote > > Until now I did not find a function in guile to read registry values. > > There is the command line program »REG QUERY ... « to get the > information. > > It's standard output needs to be parsed, and the call needs to be fail > > save (dont throw an exception if it fails). > > > > … > > > > That looks like we need to execute a > / > > system > / > > call and redirect the output into a temporary file, then parse the file. > > Possibly we do this on several pathes in the windows registry until we > get > > an string. Then we need to scan for specific keywords in this string to > > select one on the known editors. > > I think there are two issues to consider: > > - a program is invoked which is not in a folder defined in the %path% > variable > - the file has not the extension .ly > > I've attached a small program to check the user's choice for an application > to open that file and to find the full command line command in HKCR\… > regQuery.bat > <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/n144800/regQuery.bat> > > so if you can run such a "system" call you should get this information back > > > Windows 7 SP1 or other. C:\Users\jlowe\Desktop>regQuery.bat Environment variable my not defined ? Am I supposed to run this bat file pre-edited or with an argument or something? James
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