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Managing Application Settings
In Microsoft Windows 3.1 and earlier versions of Windows, program settings like window positions, files used, and other items were commonly stored in .ini files. In Windows NT, Windows 95, and later versions of Windows these program settings are stored in the system registry.
Visual Basic provides a standard registry location for storing program information for applications created in Visual Basic:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\appname\section\key
Visual Basic also provides four statements and functions to manipulate the settings stored in your application's registry location.
Function or Statement Description
GetSetting function Retrieves registry settings.
SaveSetting statement Saves or creates registry settings.
GetAllSettings function Returns an array containing multiple registry settings.
DeleteSetting statement Deletes registry settings.
Note To view registry entries, use the Regedit application, included with Windows 95/98 and Windows NT.
To read more about using application settings, see the following topics:
Creating or Saving Application Settings Explains how to save new values for registry keys stored in your application's registry location.
Retrieving Application Settings Explains how to retrieve registry values stored in your application's registry location.
Deleting Application Settings Explains how to delete registry keys, sections, or an application's registry location.
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SaveSetting Statement
Saves or creates an application entry in the application's entry in the Windows registry.
Syntax
SaveSetting appname, section, key, setting
The SaveSetting statement syntax has these named arguments:
Part Description
appname Required. String expression containing the name of the application or project to which the setting applies.
section Required. String expression containing the name of the section where the key setting is being saved.
key Required. String expression containing the name of the key setting being saved.
setting Required. Expression containing the value that key is being set to.
Remarks
An error occurs if the key setting can’t be saved for any reason.
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SaveSetting Statement Example
The following example first uses the SaveSetting statement to make entries in the Windows registry (or .ini file on 16-bit Windows platforms) for the MyApp application, and then uses the DeleteSetting statement to remove them.
' Place some settings in the registry.
SaveSetting appname := "MyApp", section := "Startup", _
key := "Top", setting := 75
SaveSetting "MyApp","Startup", "Left", 50
' Remove section and all its settings from registry.
DeleteSetting "MyApp", "Startup"
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GetSetting Function
Returns a key setting value from an application's entry in the Windows registry.
Syntax
GetSetting(appname, section, key[, default])
The GetSetting function syntax has these named arguments:
Part Description
appname Required. String expression containing the name of the application or project whose key setting is requested.
section Required. String expression containing the name of the section where the key setting is found.
key Required. String expression containing the name of the key setting to return.
default Optional. Expression containing the value to return if no value is set in the key setting. If omitted, default is assumed to be a zero-length string (""
.
Remarks
If any of the items named in the GetSetting arguments do not exist, GetSetting returns the value of default.
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GetSetting Function Example
This example first uses the SaveSetting statement to make entries in the Windows registry (or .ini file on 16-bit Windows platforms) for the application specified as appname, and then uses the GetSetting function to display one of the settings. Because the default argument is specified, some value is guaranteed to be returned. Note that section names can't be retrieved with GetSetting. Finally, the DeleteSetting statement removes all the application's entries.
' Variant to hold 2-dimensional array returned by GetSetting.
Dim MySettings As Variant
' Place some settings in the registry.
SaveSetting "MyApp","Startup", "Top", 75
SaveSetting "MyApp","Startup", "Left", 50
Debug.Print GetSetting(appname := "MyApp", section := "Startup", _
key := "Left", default := "25"
DeleteSetting "MyApp", "Startup"
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