Saving Check Box state to config.ini file ( Need Help )

[thawee]

Hi, All

I have been working on saving check box states to a configuration file.

I have noticed that what is save is neither 0 or a 1.

The problem I am having is I want to read the data in from the config file, and set the check box state back to what it was after the check boxes were checked or not checked.

For example

IniWrite("C:\Config.txt","Section1","sec1",$Checkbox1)

$Checkbox1 = IniRead("C:\Config.txt","Section1","sec1",$Checkbox1)

Is there anything more i need to do to set the state of the check box to checked.

Please advise,

Thanks

Thawee

Edited April 25, 2010 by thawee

[Melba23]

thawee,

You are saving the ControlID of the checkbox, not its state.

When you create a control, AutoIt returns its ControlID, an integer value you then use to identify the control. If you want to know the state of a control, you need to use GUIGetState.

Here is a short example to help you see what I mean:

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>

$hGUI = GUICreate("Test", 500, 500)

$hButton_1 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Test", 10, 10, 80, 30)
; $hButton is the ControlId

$hCheckBox = GUICtrlCreateCheckBox(" Check me!", 10, 80, 100, 20)

$hButton_2 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Read", 10, 110, 80, 30)

GUISetState()

While 1

    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
        Case $hButton_1 ; The ControlID is used here
            MsgBox(0, "ControlID", "The ControlID of this button is " & $hButton_1)
        Case $hButton_2 ; The ControlID is used here
            $sMsg = "The ControlID of this button is " & $hButton_2 & @CRLF & @CRLF & _
                    "The state of the checkbox is " & GUICtrlRead($hCheckBox) ; Read the STATE of the checkbox
            MsgBox(0, "ControlID", $sMsg)

    EndSwitch

WEnd

So you need to save the return value from GUICtrlRead and then use that value with GUICtrlSetState to get it as it was.

Ask if anything is unclear.

M23

[thawee]

Thanks for the reply!

So, I would assume that to write the state of the Check box to a ini file I would need to do something similar to this.

$CBox-State = GUICtrlRead($hCheckBox)

; Writing
IniWrite("C:\Config.txt","Section1","sec1",$CBox-State)

; Reading and setting state
$CBox-State = IniRead("C:\Config.txt","Section1","sec1","Not Found")
GuictrlSetState($hCheckBox,$CBox-State)

Does that seem like what would need to happen to successfully preserve the state of a check box in a ini file?

Edited April 25, 2010 by thawee

[Melba23]

thawee,

Have you tried?

M23

Fix the syntax errors and it should work!

[thawee]

Not yet,

I will give it a shot, and let you know the results.

thx

[GEOSoft]

Here's another little trick for you

$CBox_State = BitAND(GUICtrlGetState($hCheckBox), $GUI_Checked) = $GUI_Checked
IniWrite("C:\Config.txt","Section1","sec1",$CBox_State)

That will write it as 1 or 0

Then you can just use

$CBox_State = IniRead("C:\Config.txt","Section1","sec1","")
If $CBox_State Then GuictrlSetState($hCheckBox,$CBox_State)

Note: You can't use a hyphen in a variable name, stick with letters, digits or the underscore character for best success.

EDIT: Fix the spellink before M23 has something to pick on me about.

Edited April 25, 2010 by GEOSoft

[RogerH]

Thawee, I'm having the same questions... I think this part (cleaned up of course) would be more elegant than doing another conversion... how did this turn out?

I'm leaning toward doing it into the registry, but otherwise I'd like to do the same thing.

Thanks for the reply!

So, I would assume that to write the state of the Check box to a ini file I would need to do something similar to this.

$CBox-State = GUICtrlRead($hCheckBox)

; Writing
IniWrite("C:\Config.txt","Section1","sec1",$CBox-State)

; Reading and setting state
$CBox-State = IniRead("C:\Config.txt","Section1","sec1","Not Found")
GuictrlSetState($hCheckBox,$CBox-State)

Does that seem like what would need to happen to successfully preserve the state of a check box in a ini file?

[GEOSoft]

It should be working but I just noticed a mistake in the code he posted back

$CBox-State = IniRead("C:\Config.txt","Section1","sec1","Not Found")

GuictrlSetState($hCheckBox,$CBox-State)

Would be better as

$CBox-State = IniRead("C:\Config.txt","Section1","sec1", 4);; Set a default value here
GuictrlSetState($hCheckBox,$CBox-State)

OR

$CBox-State = IniRead("C:\Config.txt","Section1","sec1", 0);; Set a default value of 0 here
If $CBox-State Then GuictrlSetState($hCheckBox,$CBox-State)

Also If I were you, I would try to avoid the registry. It already becomes bloated enough as it is so it's prone to being a bit slower and remember most of that registry will also be read at system startup whether or not it's needed.

I would stay with the ini and in order to avoid write permission issues store the ini in @AppDataDir or @AppDataCommonDir