>>>Then I found the culprit - the section names in the ini file. For a while I was using chrtran(sys(1272,toObj), ".", "_"), but then I forgot the chrtran() in the font saving routine, and started getting both [formname.pageframe.page1.text1] and [formname_pageframe_page1_text1]. The recent version uses the former only. When I deleted the ini file, the new file didn't have any sections with underscores anymore... so that was it. I wrote a little routine which removes those sections, to purge the existing ini file in production, and voila, it all works.
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>>>So, for you two guys, did I run into a bug, or just a limitation, or was I just sloppy? If it's a bug, is it a VFP bug or Windows API bug?
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>>Well, if you forgot the chrtran() in the font saving routine and ended up with sections that had the underscores - don't see how VFP or Windows can be to blame for that. Would of been nice if you would of got something a little more specific that the infamous c00005 error though.
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>That's not the point - I had two sets of sections, one with dots and one without underscores. Now getprivateprofilestring should use only the one I pass as the parameter and shoudln't care if there's any other section, similar or not. Which it actually did for a while. Somehow I've pushed it to a tipping point where it was too much for this API. And the size of the ini was 20K when it was most bloated - nowhere near any magical number like 32K or 64K.
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>And, mind you, getprivateprofilestring is not a recent invention by any means - it's at least 15 years old.
So, you did find a bug or limitation that only showed up because you were somewhat sloppy. And the quest is: who is to blame.
If the limitation is not documented, then it's at the least a flaw in the documentation. In this case the bug/limitation is not within vfp, but applies to a windows-api.
Were you sloppy? Does that really matter? I think you were confronted with a flaw in the api and that api therefore needs either a repair of the routine or of the documentation.
What I did lately, was (try to) make the people here aware of a finding. See
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1082252In that case I have not posted a report to MS, because I think that the finding was not their fault. But I felt an obligation to report it to the community, knowing that this routine is widely used.
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