[fpc-pascal] SysUtils.GetEnvironmentVariable

[Marcos Douglas]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 29.03.2012 13:06, schrieb Marcos Douglas:
>
>> The application is installed and the system variable is created. The
>> application and others process should be use this variable just
>> calling SysUtils.GetEnvironmentVariable.
>
>
> Then let a FPC program print all passed environment variables as a test:
>
>
> === source begin ===
>
> program envtest;
>
> var
>  i: LongInt;
> begin
>  for i := 0 to GetEnvironmentVariableCount do
>    Writeln(GetEnvironmentString(i)); // Note: this will include "name=value"
> unlike GetEnvironmentVariable
>
> end.
>
> === source end ===

I know it works on WinXP but my client uses Win7 and I don't have Win7
at this moment so, somebody can test this, please?

> Also - as I already wrote - you can use the Process Explorer (
> http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/sysinternals/bb896653 ) to check whether
> the application does indeed contain the environment variable.

If the app do not found the environment variable, what I can tell to
the user? He do not know this things... the variable was set by
installer and the application should be able to use.

Marcos Douglas