Re: How to read from the Windows registry
- Posted by jeremy (admin) Apr 15, 2009
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I would like to know if a particular software package is installed on my computer, and if so, what is the path to it. My idea is to search and read the windows registry. I would appreciate any ideas of how to do this in Euphoria. Thank you.
There is probably a library in the archives for this, though I don't know of one offhand. Possibly win32lib already has this builtin.
If you want to do it the hard way, use dll.e to wrap http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724897(VS.85).aspx, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724845(VS.85).aspx, etc (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms725488(VS.85).aspx for more examples).
I was thinking that the standard library needs a configuration file (config.e) that would write cross-platform configuration files using native backends. For instance, registry on Windows and a simple $HOME/.dotfile on Unix.
Jeremy
