>Looking for a way to provide users with a semi free form way to store data in memo fields I'm considering the WritePrivateProfileString and GetPrivateProfileString functions in Win32API. The intent of those functions is maintaining INI files and MS indicates that they only exist to provide compatibility with 16 bit apps.
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>Is somebody aware of equivalent functions that could write to a string and don't risk disappearing in some future Windows version?
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>Somewhere else someone suggested XML files for a similar situation. So maybe XML strings in memo fields? Hmmm.

I've seen this done, and it works perfectly. Check the wwXml stuff on Rick's site, that should be enough. The Set/GetProperty() method is what you're looking for.

You can store the result in a memo, or in a text file, or wherever you like, it's so flexible.