Visual Basic Module for libini support.

Simon White — Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:18:25 -0000

Libini Release 3 provides a Visual Basic bas file that can be used to access the function calls in the libini.dll. This module will not work with previous versions of libini.dll.

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Simon White — Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:47:08 -0000

This INI file parser provides standard Microsoft functionality with various extensions. Testing has been performed with extremely large INI files with very good results.

By default this library can be used in C and C++. Also this library is SWIG capatible meaning it can be used in scripting languages such as TCL, Perl, etc. Due to it being a C library it should also be possible to use it in Visual Basic/Java (untested).

Although the code works under 16bit DOS it's probably not advisable unless your using small INI files. Testing under DOS has been performed using Watcom and the DOS4GW memory extender.

Until a project is created and released here, the code can be obtained from one one of my other projects. See the INI directory in the sidplay2 project, module libsidutils.

Extened support includes extra datatypes, obtaining the size of the keys data before you have to read it and fast automatic parsing of lists e.g:

[test]
key1=data1, data2, data3

Theres also support for some custom INI file formats as used under Linux which include non standard comments starting with characters such as "#" (two byte characters to indicate comments are not yet supported e.g."//"). Anonymous sections are also support e.g.:

; Has no section name
key1 = data

[section1]
key1 = data

Order of keys and sections is preserved where possible and data is auto aligned for neatness and readability in the produced INI files.

Note that this code can read, write and edit INI files and will automatically create backups if necessary.

The code will be moved to this project as soon as possible.

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Visual Basic Module for libini support.

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