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bjadams
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anyone has experience creating registry entries in C++ and writing string values to the registry?

i have been searching for long and i have only found long and complicated examples. All i need is to create a subfolder, create a key and write a string value.

thanks a lot.
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bjadams
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solved my own problem!

for anyone who is interested in creating registry keys, here is a working example:

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Would you mind explaining what that does? Registry is one thing that's escaped me to this point, probably for the very reason you cited.

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Benjamin
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The last argument passed to RegSetValueEx is supposed to be the size of the data, in this case the size of the string (including the null terminator). You appear to be passing the size of DWORD.

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bjadams
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thanks Benjamin that seems to be something wierd I did there, I have to fix it then. still this code works perfectly
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Lilith:

this code simply creates a new entry in the registry (RegCreateKeyEx) under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MY PROG NAME

Then using RegSetValueEx, it creates a new string key (My Value) and sets it to "Hello".

then it closes the registry key (RegCloseKey)

this way your program can store setup information (or any other data) in registry.
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