"help" - ini read creation / concept ?

[keilamym]

im hoping someone can guide me in the right direction.. i have a tool i created in autoit but portions of the script have hard coded paths. What I'd like to do is move these hard-coded paths to an ini file that the script can simply pull from but im not sure the best method/commands. If has any quick examples or suggestions, please let me know.. i'd really appreciate it.

[PsaltyDS]

See IniRead() and IniWrite() in the help file. There are example scripts there.

[keilamym]

See IniRead() and IniWrite() in the help file. There are example scripts there.

awesome.. i think i got it figured out.. thanks again...

[ZacUSNYR]

Global $inifile = @ScriptDir & "\myinifile.ini"
Global $publicnetworkdrive
Global $personalnetworkdrive

; Check to see if ini file exists
If FileExists($inifile) = 0 Then
    ; No file exists - so show msgbox and create the ini file
    MsgBox(0, "Missing INI", "No INI File")
    CreatePaths()
EndIf

GetPaths() ; Check INI file for paths

If $publicnetworkdrive = "None" or $personalnetworkdrive = "None" Then ;If any keys are missing it'll pickup None
    ; Display msgbox and recreate file
    MsgBox(0, "Missing a path in INI", "Missing a path in INI file - recreating")
    CreatePaths()
    GetPaths() ; Recheck
EndIf

; Display MsgBox with info.
MsgBox(0, "Information", $personalnetworkdrive & " is the personal drive" & @CRLF & $publicnetworkdrive & " is the public drive")

Func CreatePaths() ; IniWrite used to create the file and add section/keys.
    IniWrite($inifile, "Paths", "PublicNetworkDrive", "P:\")
    IniWrite($inifile, "Paths", "PersonalNetworkDrive", "Z:\")
EndFunc

Func GetPaths() ; IniRead used to read the file.  
    $publicnetworkdrive = IniRead($inifile, "Paths", "PublicNetworkDrive", "None")
    $personalnetworkdrive = IniRead($inifile, "Paths", "PersonalNetworkDrive", "None")
EndFunc

IniWrite will create the file and IniRead will auto fill in the variable if it can't read the key. An example is above with limited error control (ie - you could get it to the point where it only creates the keys that are missing, etc).