>>>I have the syntax for using GetPrivateProfileString to read and INI file does anyone have the info for WritePrivateProfileString to write to an INI file?
>>>
>>>Thanks
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>>From George Tasker's INI file class:
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>>DECLARE SHORT WritePrivateProfileString IN Win32API;
>> STRING cSection, STRING cEntry, STRING cString, STRING cFilename
>>
>>Use it to your hearts content, but George's class has so much functionality already built, I highly recommend downloading and using it directly.
>
>I downloaded it but I am having trouble using WritePrivateProfileString. It fails to write to the ini file. I get return codes of 1 and 0. Do you know what this means?
>
>Thanks

Hi John,

I use the convention of declaring Boolean return values as SHORTs in order to differentiate between logical and numeric values. This means that you can call the function like this:

llresult = (WritePrivateProfileString(lcsection, lcentry, lcvalue, lcfile) # 0)

As Ed mentioned, GetLastError() should return the last error condition, but there are only a handful of things that would cause this to fail, such as insufficient disk space.

In looking over my class, I think it's bad form on my part not to have the calls to these return a value to indicate whether or not the function succeed. I'll look into making some changes in this area, and if I decide to modify the class, I'll be sure to post it here.