Re: [gtkmm] saving settings in win32

[Julian Missig <julian jabber org>]

On 1 Jun, 2004, at 4:38, Daniel Sundberg wrote:

> > > Saving settings in Linux is easy with gconfmm, but how to accomplisch
> > > this in a win32 environment? Is there a way to use gconf in win32? (
> > > wouldn't be very useful imo ) or should i use the registry or even 
> > > use
> > > flat textfiles? I think there are some people on this list who have
> > > experience with gtkmm/win32 and i'm curious how you usually do this.
> > gconf(-mm) is a gnome library. If you want cross-platform 
> > portability, you should stick to gtk+ (gtkmm) libraries only 
> > (+libglade). Personally, I have used the standard win32 registry 
> > access functions to save my settings on win32 (with #ifdefs). It 
> > might be interesting to write your own (simple) registry class that 
> > wraps a small subset of both gconf and the win32 registry API.
>
> In my project GSpeakers I use a custom settings class that writes 
> plain text configuration files. It was originally borrowed from ickle 
> (an icq client using gtkmm) but my version is slightly modified. This 
> class is in GSpeakers cvs (on sourceforge).
>
> However, if you or someone else decide to implement a cross platform 
> gconf/win32-registry wrapper, please let the list know since I am sure 
> some people would like to have something like that.

Actually, this is basically what we do in Gabber2, although ours is 
probably a bit Gabber-centric. It's just a small wrapper with some core 
config functionality we wanted, implemented differently for a linux 
compile and a win32 compile (GConf vs. Registry). I don't think temas 
has the win32 side completely checked in to CVS, but he does have 
working code for it. By the time we do our next release the win32 code 
should be checked in, should people want to see examples of such a 
thing in action.

Julian