INI FIles and WritePrivateProfileString

[rickmcneely]

I'm using some windows api to access INI files.  My code works fine unless I specify an actual path to the ini file.  If I leave the path empty it will default to \windows, but all of the functions will work fine.  I don't know if Vista would like that.  In any case, I would rather specify my own app.path.

instead of:
i = WritePrivateProfileString ("HTWin","NotMain1","False","test.ini")

I would like to use:
i = WritePrivateProfileString ("HTWin","NotMain1","False","c"\testdir\test.ini")

In reading other posts on WritePrivateProfileString, it seems that others believe that this should also accept a full path.  What am I doing wrong?

Code to follow,  Thanks in advance...

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'compile as console
TYPEDEF byte CHAR
TYPEDEF bool INT
TYPEDEF HANDLE UINT

def i as int
def txtScratch as STRING

DECLARE IMPORT,WritePrivateProfileString alias WritePrivateProfileStringA(string lpAppName, string lpKeyName, string lpString, string lpFileName),BOOL
Declare "kernel32",GetPrivateProfileIntA(lpAppName:String,lpKeyName:String,nDefault:Int,lpFileName:String),Int
Declare "kernel32",GetPrivateProfileStringA(lpAppName:String,lpKeyName:String,lpDefault:String,lpReturnedString:String,nSize:Int,lpFileName:String),Int

i = GetPrivateProfileStringA ("HTWin","Main","False",txtScratch,255,"test.ini")
print "len(Get)  = " + str$(i)
print "Main      =  " + LEFT$(txtScratch,i)

i = GetPrivateProfileIntA ("HTWin","NerdCount",1,"test.ini")
print "NerdCount = "  + str$(i)

print ""

i = WritePrivateProfileString ("HTWin","Main","I LIKE CHEESE!!!","test.ini")
print "resultMain      = " + str$(i)
i = WritePrivateProfileString ("HTWin","NotMain","True","test.ini")
print "resultNotMain   = " + str$(i)
i = WritePrivateProfileString ("HTWin","NerdCount","32","test.ini")
print "resultNerdCount = " + str$(i)
i = WritePrivateProfileString ("HTWin","Main1","False","test.ini")
print "resultMain1     = " + str$(i)
i = WritePrivateProfileString ("HTWin","NotMain1","False","test.ini")
print "resultNotMain1  = " + str$(i)

DO: UNTIL INKEY$ <> ""



[Ionic Wind Support Team]

Users guide->Constants and Literals->String Literals.

i = WritePrivateProfileString ("HTWin","NotMain1","False","c:\\testdir\\test.ini")

\t = tab character so \testdir would be <tab>estdir
\\testdir is \testdir

[rickmcneely]

Thanks Paul,

I knew it was something simple.