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From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard on 25 Mar 2010 00:18
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<p wrap="">My application uses a config.ini file to store some
variables, [...]&nbsp; such as [...] the position and size of the window
[...] I'm wondering, isn't there an easier way, to read and write the
data?<br>
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<p><a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310294">Use the registry</a>,
perhaps?&nbsp; <a href="http://www.delphi3000.com./articles/article_852.asp">Like
this</a>.&nbsp; Note the caution in the MSKB article.<br>
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From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard on 25 Mar 2010 15:06
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<p>You are overreacting. </p>
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<p>No, xe isn't.&nbsp; He's stressing a basic lesson in program design that
people who want to be future-proof and portable have to learn.&nbsp;
Moreover, it's better to learn this lesson <em>before</em> one finds
onesself locked into the limitations of a file format that one designed
ten years ago, which in M. Piranha's case is <em>right now</em>.&nbsp; Go
and read <a href="http://www.lysator.liu.se./c/ten-commandments.html">Henry
Spencer's Tenth Commandment</a>, <a
href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2193472/are-files-dumped-with-fwrite-portable-across-different-systems">the
writings of Martin York</a>, or <a
href="http://fadden.com./techmisc/file-formats.htm">the writings of
Andy McFadden</a>.&nbsp; <em>Learn</em> from other people's mistakes in
this area.&nbsp; There are enough examples of them to learn from.</p>
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