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homer_simpson · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:18 pm Post subject: [VB6] Reading INI files

I know the API but i cant seem to find a good tut on google.
Imagine i wanted to read this Ini file:

[Test]
Valueofbytes=29

And put the Valueofbytes thing on a Textbox.
Could some one make me a sample?

NINTENDO · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:23 pm Post subject:

I would personally recomend you to use a xml instead of a ini.
They are so out of date you know.

homer_simpson · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:24 pm Post subject:

So whats easyer to make a ini or xml?
PS: Aww and simpathised with ini files... Razz

NINTENDO · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:43 pm Post subject:

homer_simpson · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:49 pm Post subject:

k gothcha but first of all can VB6 write xml files and then load them?

AtheistCrusader · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:49 pm Post subject:

search! I even posted writing/reading INI files in here general programming

atom0s · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:28 pm Post subject:

Eh, INIs are hardly outdated and are probably still one of the most used. Anyway, you will need the following API to read from an INI:

GetPrivateProfileInt
GetPrivateProfileSection
GetPrivateProfileSectionNames
GetPrivateProfileString

And for writing to:

WritePrivateProfileSection
WritePrivateProfileString

If you haven't guessed already, beings that INI files are text files, you don't write numeric values back to the file. You always write strings. So thats why theres only 2 write functions.

You can find all these API on the MSDN website, or over at allapi.net along with examples.