Create registry key?

[philipharvey]

Is there a simple way to create a completly empty registry key in autoit? The only way I can figure to do this is to create a value and then delete it. e.g.

RegWrite("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Test","junk","REG_SZ","")
RegDelete("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Test","junk")

If you simply do

RegWrite("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Test","","REG_SZ","")

then the keys default value does not seem to get set (or rather not set) correctly.

Cheers

Philip

[ezzetabi]

Strange and true...

What about a UFD?

Func _RegWriteEmptyKey($KeyName)
    RegWrite("$KeyName","junk","REG_SZ","")
    Return(RegDelete("$KeyName","junk"))
EndFunc

Edited June 8, 2004 by ezzetabi

[philipharvey]

Hi ezzetabi.

I realize I could write a function to do this, but what I was getting at was is this a bug in Autoit that could be fixed?

Or perhaps a missing feature that could easily be added?

Or perhaps someone knows how to do this but it isn't documented?

Cheers

Phil

[ezzetabi]

Sorry... I just wanted to help...

[philipharvey]

Hi ezzetabi.

I wasn't meaning to jump down your throat, any help is always appreciated.

Cheers

Philip

[Jon]

I should be able to make it so that if you only give a keyname it is created without any values. I'll add it to my list.

[Jon]

I've made RegWrite accept a single parameter as a key to create without setting any values. It will be available the next time I upload an unstable version.

[SlimShady]

I've made RegWrite accept a single parameter as a key to create without setting any values.  It will be available the next time I upload an unstable version.

Thank you.

[philipharvey]

Super news Jon, thanks for looking into this.

Cheers

Phil

[blitzer99]

Just a vote of thanks from someone who uses the capabilities of AutoIt3 to read and update the Windows registry a lot. I must say that AutoIt is really great at doing this! I have found it a dream to code and works really well. I have used some computer languages where the registry syntax is almost incomprehensible and a nightmare to debug. I won't mention names in case I attract a whole heap of flame messages, but I think you will be able to see what I mean. (Whoops, no pun intended).

[CyberSlug]

Just a vote of thanks from someone who uses the capabilities of AutoIt3 to read and update the Windows registry a lot.

By the way, there are some good scripts by Dan et al. for converting .reg files to autoit3 scripts. Just letting you know; I think it's gotten buried in the scripts and scraps forum.