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FX::FXRegistry Class Reference

The registry maintains a database of persistent settings for an application. More...

#include <FXRegistry.h>

Inheritance diagram for FX::FXRegistry:

FX::FXSettings FX::FXDict FX::FXObject List of all members.

Public Member Functions

 FXRegistry (const FXString &akey=FXString::null, const FXString &vkey=FXString::null)
bool read ()
bool write ()
const FXStringgetAppKey () const
const FXStringgetVendorKey () const
void setAsciiMode (bool asciiMode)
bool getAsciiMode () const

Detailed Description

The registry maintains a database of persistent settings for an application.

The settings database is organized in two groups of three layers each. The system-wide settings group contains settings information pertaining to all users on a system. The per-user settings group contains settings affecting that user only. Each settings group contains a desktop layer, which comprises the settings which affect all FOX programs, a vendor layer which holds settings that affect all applications from that vendor (e.g. a application-suite), and an application layer which holds settings only for a single application. The vendor-key and application-key determine which files these layers come from, while the "Desktop" key is used for all FOX applications. Settings in the system-wide group are overwritten by the per-user group, and settings from the "Desktop" layer are overwritten by the vendor-layer; vendor-layer settings are overwritten by the application-layer settings. Only the per-user, per-application settings ever gets written; the layers in the system-group only get written during installation and configuration of the application. The registry is read when FXApp::init() is called, and written back to the system when FXApp::exit() is called.


Constructor & Destructor Documentation

FX::FXRegistry::FXRegistry const FXString akey = FXString::null,
const FXString vkey = FXString::null
 

Construct registry object; akey and vkey must be string constants.

Regular applications SHOULD set a vendor key!


Member Function Documentation

bool FX::FXRegistry::read  ) 
 

Read registry.

bool FX::FXRegistry::write  ) 
 

Write registry.

const FXString& FX::FXRegistry::getAppKey  )  const [inline]
 

Return application key.

const FXString& FX::FXRegistry::getVendorKey  )  const [inline]
 

Return vendor key.

void FX::FXRegistry::setAsciiMode bool  asciiMode  )  [inline]
 

Set ASCII mode; under MS-Windows, this will switch the system to a file-based registry system, instead of using the System Registry API.

bool FX::FXRegistry::getAsciiMode  )  const [inline]
 

Get ASCII mode.

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