Opening the registry

codefire · Post by **codefire** » Sat May 03, 2008 11:40 am

I'm trying to write some code to read some values from the registry. Here's what I have so far - however, the code always fails to open the registry. Any ideas why?

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  hKey.l


  OpenConsole()
  Str.s = "Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion"
  RetCode.l = RegOpenKeyEx_(#HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, @Str, 0, #KEY_READ, @hKey)
  If RetCode = #ERROR_SUCCESS 
    PrintN("Opened OK")
  Else
    PrintN("Failed") 
  EndIf
  
  RegCloseKey_(hTestKey)

  Input()
  CloseConsole()

Many thanks,
Tony

Sparkie · Post by **Sparkie** » Sat May 03, 2008 1:20 pm

You need a space between Windows and NT.

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Str.s = "Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion"

akj · Post by **akj** » Sat May 03, 2008 1:37 pm

"WindowsNT" needs an extra space, thus:

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"Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion"

Sparkie · Post by **Sparkie** » Sat May 03, 2008 1:46 pm

Isn't that what I said.

akj · Post by **akj** » Sat May 03, 2008 1:49 pm

Sorry Sparkie,
I didn't realise it was already answered when I posted my reply.

Sparkie · Post by **Sparkie** » Sat May 03, 2008 1:54 pm

codefire · Post by **codefire** » Sat May 03, 2008 6:39 pm

God I'm dumb!

Now I remember why I always hated spaces in path names...

Thanks a lot guys!