Ini file and Tray help needed

[SxyfrG]

For the past few weeks me and a friend of mine have been developing an application which allows you to easily launch games from the system tray.

The application reads from a .ini file ( config.ini ) located in the same directory which tells the application how many tray menu's to create and how many menu items within those menu's to make.

So far we've had a few minor hiccups, but nothing we can't deal with, but recently when adding a new option to the applicaion ( add/remove group ), we've run into a bit of trouble.

Adding a group is fine and works well, but when you remove the group and restart the application, things go a bit haywire...

When the application is loading, it reads the number of groups you have created (e.g. 3). If you remove the first group, it will create 2 group's after it restarts. This is all well and good BUT the first group will have no name and instead of showing the 2 remaining groups, it will only show the first of the two as the second group due to an IniRead problem.

;Groups -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

$GroupCheck = IniRead ( @ScriptDir & "\config.ini" , "Groups" , "Number" , "Not Found" )

if $GroupCheck = "Not Found" Then

IniWrite ( @ScriptDir & "\config.ini" , "Groups" , "Number" , "0" )

Else

EndIf

;Group name checking and menu and menu item creation

$GroupNumber = IniRead ( @ScriptDir & "\config.ini" , "Groups" , "Number" , "" )

For $N = 1 To $GroupNumber Step 1

$GroupName[$N][0] = IniRead ( @ScriptDir & "\config.ini" , "Group"&$N , "Name" , "" )

Next

For $G = 1 To $GroupNumber Step 1

TrayCreateItem ( "" )

$Group[$G][0] = TrayCreateMenu ( $GroupName[$G][0] )

$GroupOptions[$G][0] = TrayCreateMenu ( "Options" , $Group[$G][0] )

$GroupOptRemove[$G][0] = TrayCreateItem ( "Remove Group" , $GroupOptions[$G][0] )

$GroupOptChangeName[$G][0] = TrayCreateItem ( "Change Group Name" , $GroupOptions[$G][0] )

EndIf

Next

;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

And the ini style:

[Groups]

Number=3

[Group1]

Name=Games

[Group2]

Name=Applications

[Group3]

Name=Text Documents

After removing the group "Games":

[Groups]

Number=2

[Group2]

Name=Applications

[Group3]

Name=Text Documents

What i'm basically trying to say (in the most confusing way possible) is that the problem is math related.

I need some kind of function that scans the ini file in the 'groups' bit for a gap between numbers ( e.g. [Group1] [Group3] ) and fixes it by re-writing those ini entries as a number lower so the ini file will read [Group1] [Group2] etc at the start of the script.

It's really late over here and my head is hurting from thinking all day and working with other scripts so if anyone here has deciphered my mess of a help request, please help me, the only reward i can offer is brownie points

P.S. Script included (as well as the Restart.au3 script)

GameLauncherTRAY.rar

[martin]

For the past few weeks me and a friend of mine have been developing an application which allows you to easily launch games from the system tray.

The application reads from a .ini file ( config.ini ) located in the same directory which tells the application how many tray menu's to create and how many menu items within those menu's to make.

So far we've had a few minor hiccups, but nothing we can't deal with, but recently when adding a new option to the applicaion ( add/remove group ), we've run into a bit of trouble.

Adding a group is fine and works well, but when you remove the group and restart the application, things go a bit haywire...

When the application is loading, it reads the number of groups you have created (e.g. 3). If you remove the first group, it will create 2 group's after it restarts. This is all well and good BUT the first group will have no name and instead of showing the 2 remaining groups, it will only show the first of the two as the second group due to an IniRead problem.

And the ini style:

After removing the group "Games":

What i'm basically trying to say (in the most confusing way possible) is that the problem is math related.

I need some kind of function that scans the ini file in the 'groups' bit for a gap between numbers ( e.g. [Group1] [Group3] ) and fixes it by re-writing those ini entries as a number lower so the ini file will read [Group1] [Group2] etc at the start of the script.

It's really late over here and my head is hurting from thinking all day and working with other scripts so if anyone here has deciphered my mess of a help request, please help me, the only reward i can offer is brownie points

P.S. Script included (as well as the Restart.au3 script)

Maybe you could simplify it, though you would need to change your script a bit. Instead of having the ini file the way you do, hav it like this

[Groups]

Names = Games|Applications|Text documents|

Then when you read it

$AllGroups = IniRead( @ScriptDir & "\config.ini" , "Groups" , "Names" , "" )

$Groups = StringSplit($AllGroups,'|')

$GroupNumber = $Groups[0] - 1

When you remove a group like games then

$AllGroups = StringReplace($AllGroups,"Games|","")

Then write the Names in the ini file again and remove the Games section.

Instead of calling the sections "Group1", "Group2" etc I would call them "Games", "Applications"... and the Names key is effectively an index

[SxyfrG]

Thanks martin, i'm trying it now (fingers, toes and eyes crossed).

Hopefully i won't have to change anything else, the entire script is over 3000 lines long

[SxyfrG]

YES!!!!

Adding groups works, removing groups works and creating the tray menu items also works, THANK YOU MARTIN!!!!