[shell-coding] Re: CPP variable storage question

Well, for litestep there's no obvious place in the registry to put stuff,
while text files are already in use.  Would that be under
HKCU/software/litestep, HKCU/software/fictitious company/litestep,
HKCU/software/litestep/module, HKCU/software/company/module, etc.  ?  

Besides that, there's the general principle that users should stay out of
the registry.  It's a strange and confusing place.  I think litestep is
hard enough to configure without making people to venture into the
registry to do it.

It's also much easier to code, avoiding the registry.  No open/close key
(or not close key, as seems to be more common...), no navigating the
tree, no "oops, i don't have permission to write there."  Nice and simple
for us lazy folk. :D

Most tho cuz *I* don't like changing things in the registry, too much
navigation to find anything.

-rabidcow

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:04:07 -0400 Jaykul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
You know ...this is a great opportunity for me to ask ... (and please
don't take this as offensive, because I'm just wondering about the
possibility that there are good reasons that I simply don't understand)
why are you LS'ers so rabid about not using the resigtry?


I mean ... all the features you could possibly want to use the registry
to store values are built into the APIs of the OS that you're developing
for, and (unlike XML or .ini files) you have RegNotifyChangeKeyValue let
you know when something changes... RegEdit may not be the best editor on
the planet, but hey, at least (unlike notepad) it lets you navigate
hierarchies, and indicate whether you expect your input in numerical or
string form ...
--
curiously yours, Jaykul :-)




On 11 Jul 2002 at 18:03, rabidcow@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> A lot of people seem to look down on this file 
...
> but I think it's better than using the registry and if you
--
::Jaykul
Jaykul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://fragmentized.com/jaykul

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