Thread: Reading registry

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    Reading registry

    Hey guys, I was searching alot in google but I could not find a way that worked to read the data of a key. I used this to open the key
    Code:
    RegOpenKeyEx(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE , "Software\\Someapp\\Theapp" , 0 , 
                    KEY_READ , &location );
    
       RegQueryValueEx(hkey , "Path"  , NULL , &data_type ,
                       (BYTE*)&value , &size);
    But how can I read the data inside? Lets say that "Path" is the directory of the application.

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    Shouldn't location be instead of hkey, and I think you got more than 2 erros there... read at msdn or google for more examples.
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    Okay well I redid the code and now its working.
    Code:
    int main ()
    {
        HKEY keyHandle;
        char rgValue [1024];
        char fnlRes [1024];
        DWORD size1;
        DWORD Type;
    
            if( RegOpenKeyEx(    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
                "SOFTWARE\\somesoft\\app",0,
                KEY_QUERY_VALUE, &keyHandle) == ERROR_SUCCESS)
                 {
                    size1=1023;
                    RegQueryValueEx( keyHandle, "Path", NULL, &Type,
                        (LPBYTE)rgValue,&size1);
                    printf( "Your path is %s\n", rgValue );
                 }     
            else strcpy(fnlRes,"Somesoft is not installed on your computer!");
        
                RegCloseKey(keyHandle);
    			std::cin.get();
    
    return 0;
    }
    But now I want to go to that directory I tryed using
    Code:
    system ("cd %s"):
    And as I expected it didn't work any help?

    EDIT: fixed every thing works
    Last edited by NoFearXD; 04-14-2007 at 04:53 PM.

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