FormCreate Load Saved Settings 1

[BobbaFet]

One of my friends said it would be usefull to be able to
save the settings of my program (and I agree, it would be
usefull). Now I want want to accomplish this by using
Inifiles. I have looked it up in the helpfile but it was
all confusing to me. I just dont understand how it works ...

Can someone please help me out???

Thanx allot,

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[StevenK]

What settings are you looking to save ?
I've used INI files successfully in a Delphi 5 application in order to save a series of printer margin settings for Crystal reports printing.
Let me know what you're trying to achieve and I'll send you some code examples ....
Regards,
Steve

 

[BobbaFet]

Thanks for your response Steve,

I was looking to save save some string (for TEdit.Text)
and boolean (for TCheckbox.State) values.

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[spradeepraj]

hi,

You can use TIniFile for your need, For ex.,
You can store all users option in IniFile and retrive for current user's options.

To Create IniFile...
UserFile := tIniFile.Create('userdefs.ini'); {userdefs.ini File is in Current Dir.}

To Write in IniFile (String)
// to store Current User Seleted Font's name
UserFile.WriteString(CurUser, 'FontName', PassValue);

To Write in IniFile (Boolean)
// to store Current User Seleted Option For Confirmation Msg
// Needed Before delete/Edit..
UserFile.WriteBool(CurUser, 'ConfirmNeeded', PassBool);

To Read in IniFile (String)
// to retrive Current User Seleted Font's name
CurFontName := UserFile.ReadString(CurUser, 'FontName',
'Default Value');

To Read in IniFile (Boolean)
// to retrive Current User Seleted Option For Confirmation
// Msg Needed Before delete/Edit..
Result := UserFile.ReadBool(CurUser, 'ConfirmNeeded',
PassBool);
// PassBool is Default Value

For Freeing the IniFile.
UserFile.free;

You can try this,

Regards
Pradeep.
Delphidhasan

 

[BobbaFet]

I have used your explination and it works just great!!!
But when I use this code in the FormCreate event I get the
EInvalidOperation error. It says that it "Cannot focus a
disabled or invisible window", but I got around that by
using the FormShow event !!!

Thanx allot you guys !!!

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[spradeepraj]

hi,
"Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window" Error will come, if you are trying to setfocus on particular control which is not enabled/visible. In your case i think you are trying to setting focus before creating the the controls.

Regards
Pradeep Delphidhasan