My first time making a .ini file.

[Canasian]

Ok this is my first time ever trying to use .ini read or ever making an ini period. Soooo I had to use search tool to even know i had to put a sector in the ini.. lol durrrr. But I'm stuck.. I keep getting error saying Missing seperator character after keyword. [uNPW] [uNPW^ERROR looking it up in search tool i got 3 results none helped me. So can someone please point me in the right direction?

Here is what I have.

#include <Setup.ini>

$UN = IniRead(@ScriptDir & "\Setup.ini" ,"UNPW","Username","Not Found")
$PW = IniRead(@ScriptDir & "\Setup.ini" ,"UNPW","Password","Not Found")

MsgBox(0,"Username",$UN,1)
Sleep(2500)
MsgBox(2,"Password",$PW,1)

And here's the ini.

[UNPW]
Username = Username
Password = Password

[Melba23]

Canasian,

Ini files are really nice to use in AutoIt because of the built-in support. All you have to think about is the name of the file, and the section and key names to put in it - and the variables you want to store, of course. :-)

Look at this simple example - it should make things clearer:

; Define the Ini file
$sIniFile = @ScriptDir & "\Setup.ini"

; Write to the ini file - it will be created if it does not exist
IniWrite($sIniFile, "UNPW", "Username", "Fred")
IniWrite($sIniFile, "UNPW", "Password", "Secret")

; Pause so you can go look in the folder to be sure the ini file is there
MsgBox(0, "Waiting...", "Check ini file now exists")

; Read the ini file
$UN = IniRead($sIniFile ,"UNPW", "Username", "Not Found")
$PW = IniRead($sIniFile ,"UNPW", "Password", "Not Found")
; Display the result
MsgBox(0,"INI Contents","Username: " & $UN & @CRLF & @CRLF & "Password: " & $PW)

; Now delete the inifile - just to see what happens if there are no keys to read!
FileDelete($sIniFile)

; And try and read the ini file again
$UN = IniRead($sIniFile ,"UNPW", "Username", "Not Found")
$PW = IniRead($sIniFile ,"UNPW", "Password", "Not Found")
; Display the result - and we have only the defaults!
MsgBox(0,"INI Contents","Username: " & $UN & @CRLF & @CRLF & "Password: " & $PW)

There is no need for includes or "sector"s (?).

Ask again if you have any questions.

M23

[WideBoyDixon]

I'm guessing your original INI file needs the spaces removed around the "=" like this:

[UNPW]
Username=Username
Password=Password

WBD

[water]

If you remove the line

#include <Setup.ini>

your example works fine.

[Canasian]

Wow thank you all very much Yay this works:

$UN = IniRead(@ScriptDir & "\Setup.ini","UNPW","Username","Not Found")
$PW = IniRead(@ScriptDir & "\Setup.ini","UNPW","Password","Not Found")

MsgBox(0,"Username",$UN,1)
Sleep(2500)
MsgBox(0,"Password",$PW,1)

Yay thanks a lot Melba23 I loved your example. I will use all those in my script just wanted to get this working first i think i saw your example once before when i used search but i still couldn't get this to work.. I just assumed I needed to use #include without even knowing what it does xD Well tyvm guys It feels so good to have a problem then fix it and have something that works.. That's why I love autoit and it's addicting to me and video games.. and troubleshooting computers Thanks again guys.