Populate Listviews/labels with data from ini file

[theholycow]

I am working on a function that will take user input and save it in an ini file, that part is easy and already works, but at the same time that the program can be writing to the file, I want a listview or some way to view the information in the file. I have already been playing with IniReadSectionNames and such, but can't quite get it to work. I just need it to read ALL the data in a section (sometimes 5 or 6 keys in a section) and write that to a listview or something similar, and do this for all the sections in the file, and all displayed at once in the Listview. Ideas?

[martin]

I am working on a function that will take user input and save it in an ini file, that part is easy and already works, but at the same time that the program can be writing to the file, I want a listview or some way to view the information in the file. I have already been playing with IniReadSectionNames and such, but can't quite get it to work. I just need it to read ALL the data in a section (sometimes 5 or 6 keys in a section) and write that to a listview or something similar, and do this for all the sections in the file, and all displayed at once in the Listview. Ideas?

Does this thread help?

[theholycow]

Does this thread help?

No, I already looked in that one. It would but I can't figure out how to recover the data from the ini once it's saved and display it. I think I am doing the exact opposite of that one

[martin]

No, I already looked in that one. It would but I can't figure out how to recover the data from the ini once it's saved and display it. I think I am doing the exact opposite of that one

Oh, but I made a post which shows how to recover the data.

[theholycow]

Oh, but I made a post which shows how to recover the data.

Yeah, I saw, I'm having some trouble with it though. I need it to write the Name of the section in one column, then keyA in the next column, keyB in the next, etc, for every section. Any examples I missed on this? When I replaced the variables in your example with the ones from my code, if the ini had no data, it would create an infinitely long listview with nothing in it, and when there was data in it, it would not be displayed in the listview at all.

Here's a segment of it:

$listview = GuiCtrlCreateListView("Name|key1|key2", 10, 10, 100, 400) 
 $NoItems = Number(IniReadSectionNames($ini))
           If $NoItems = 0 Then
               GUICtrlCreateListViewItem("no content", 1)
               Else 
            For $n = 0 To $NoItems - 1
                GUICtrlCreateListViewItem(IniRead($ini, "listviewitems", $n, ""),$listview);and I formatted the information nicely so you could do this
            Next
            EndIf

I tried adding an If statement to yours to deal with the no content issue, didnt work either, even when the ini was empty. I also replaced your IniRead with IniReadSectionNames because when I tried your way it wanted me to tell it which sections to read, which defeats the purpose...

[Valuater]

$NoItems

Is an array, as returned by IniReadSectionNames(), uses....

If $NoItems[0] = 0 Then

... and

For $n = 0 To $NoItems[0]... or For $n = 0 To Ubound($NoItems) - 1

*********************************

Your next use will not work

$NoItems = Number(IniReadSectionNames($ini))... returns a number... IniReadSectionNames() returns a "list of names"

Example

$NoItems = IniReadSectionNames($ini)

for $x = ...

GUICtrlCreateListViewItem(IniRead($ini, $NoItems[$x], $x, ""),$listview)

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Edited November 18, 2008 by Valuater

[theholycow]

$NoItems

Is an array, as returned by IniReadSectionNames(), uses....

If $NoItems[0] = 0 Then

... and

For $n = 0 To $NoItems[0]... or For $n = 0 To Ubound($NoItems) - 1

*********************************

Your next use will not work

$NoItems = Number(IniReadSectionNames($ini))... returns a number... IniReadSectionNames() returns a "list of names"

Example

$NoItems = IniReadSectionNames($ini)

for $x = ...

GUICtrlCreateListViewItem(IniRead($ini, $NoItems[$x], $x, ""),$listview)

8)

Whew. Ok, using your advice, I figured out how to do it a slightly different way but it works and it works how I originally wanted, only thing left is a small deal, $NoItems changes while the program is open according to user input, and I would prefer to use a function to write to the listview, but the $NoItems variable in the function is determined when the program launches, and so if it changes while the program is open, it wont change in the function, so when it is called to display the data, it shows no new data. how can I refresh $NoItems for the function as well?

Func _ListViewWrite($listview)
    $NoItems = IniReadSectionNames($ini)
    If $NoItems[0] = 0 Then
               GUICtrlCreateListViewItem("no content", $listview)
    ElseIf $NoItems[0] <> 0 Then 
        For $n = 1 To $NoItems[0]
            $writeevent = IniReadSectionNames($ini)
            $eventa = IniRead($ini, $writeevent[$n], "a", "")
            $eventb = IniRead($ini, $writeevent[$n], "b", "")
            $eventc = IniRead($ini, $writeevent[$n], "c", "")
            GuiCtrlCreateListViewItem($writeevent[$n] &"|" &$eventa & "|" &$eventb & "|" &$eventc, $listview)
            
        Next
    EndIf

EDIT: Sorry, forgot to add the code. so you can see how the whole thing is fairly dependent on the number of sections in the ini

Edited November 18, 2008 by theholycow