[fpc-pascal]TRegistry unit not functional on win32?

Michael Van Canneyt michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be
Wed Jul 9 13:04:23 CEST 2003


On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Ronald L Fox wrote:

> Aloha,
>
> I'm trying to use the TRegistry object of fpc 1.0.6 for Win32 on Win2k
> to check for the presence of a particular key,
> 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\SshHostKeys' and value
> name 'rsa at 22:ahost.ourdomain.com'.
>
> I've studied the Registry unit's source from \source\fcl\inc\registry.pp
> and the Borland Delphi 2.0 VCL help file but can't get anything but lies
> from my code.
>
> A simple test program and runtime output below illustrates the problem.
> No matter what I enter, the program indicates that the key exists and that
> it has no subkeys and no values.  Since the keys are supposed to be relative
> to the base or root key, I know that there is no "nada" key but that there
> is a "Software" key with many subkeys and values.
>
> Is this unit supposed to be functional?  Any idea how I can perform this
> simple existence test if Registry isn't functional?

The official 1.0.6 release didn't contain a functional registry unit.
However, the latest sources do contain a version that works on Windows
and on Linux. You can always download the latest sources and compile the
unit yourself.

Michael.





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