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May I make the recommendation to use an XML or INI file rather than registry keys for such a large amount of data.  You seem to have layered information which would fit nicely in an XML format imho.

Here is a link to information http://www.devguru.com/technologies/xmldom/quickref/xmldom_index.html . You might also want to look around for some code snippets.  I hope this helps.
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Provided "Id" and "Title" were saved as a string (and read out as a string), yes...

PS: since this is JScript, you could also do:
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var WndLstId = ReadRegistry("Lst", "Id");
WndLstId = WndLstId.split(",");
var WndLstTitle = ReadRegistry("Lst", "Title");
WndLstTitle = WndLstTitle.split(",");
// ...

So you don't realy need the temporary variables, you could just assign a string to your existing WndLstWhatever  variable and then use that same string variable to make it into an array. JScript is fine with that (as it automatically converts and overwrites the types in this case).

This might save you a lot of variable names and code.

Although there are a lot more, and more efficient methods to do what you do though (storing a lot of individual variables in the registry I mean).

Well, I did find an even quicker method, that still uses normal variables:
Javascript code:
WndLstId = ReadRegistry("Lst", "Id").split(",");
WndLstTitle = ReadRegistry("Lst", "Title").split(",");
// ...




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Originally posted by markee
May I make the recommendation to use an XML or INI file rather than registry keys for such a large amount of data.  You seem to have layered information which would fit nicely in an XML format imho.

Here is a link to information http://www.devguru.com/technologies/xmldom/quickref/xmldom_index.html . You might also want to look around for some code snippets.  I hope this helps.
Well, I have had a look, but I'm still confused with the whole idea of XML reading/writing.  :S
06-20-2009 11:55 AM
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RE: HELP - Arrays in the registry!
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Originally posted by markee
May I make the recommendation to use an XML or INI file rather than registry keys for such a large amount of data.  You seem to have layered information which would fit nicely in an XML format imho.

Here is a link to information http://www.devguru.com/technologies/xmldom/quickref/xmldom_index.html . You might also want to look around for some code snippets.  I hope this helps.
Well, I have had a look, but I'm still confused with the whole idea of XML reading/writing.  :S
just try some examples, practice with some made up examples and after a day of that you should start to get the hang of it...

also, this is for your interface maker project, why not just save the xml as an interface, then work out how to re-load it into your script, this would give your script more functionality as well because you could load any window into it and then edit that window!
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just try some examples, practice with some made up examples and after a day of that you should start to get the hang of it...

also, this is for your interface maker project, why not just save the xml as an interface, then work out how to re-load it into your script, this would give your script more functionality as well because you could load any window into it and then edit that window!
I have had a bit of a discussion about this:
mynetx's reply to "Interface Writer | [release] 1.2" (and onwards)
06-21-2009 09:49 AM
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