Hi, I wonder if there exist an option for store the settings on a .ini files instead of the registry, so it become portable and allow the user to launched the program from an usb pendrive.
Cheers.
Store settings on ini file
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GGGss
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Interesting tought...
If you know your way around working with the registry, you could export the registry tree to your USB stick, and import them back on your shadow client...
But I would mess around too much - you easily brake the structure
If you know your way around working with the registry, you could export the registry tree to your USB stick, and import them back on your shadow client...
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QSettings class supports .ini files directly see https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qsettings.html#details
Problem is how to achieve backward compatibility:
- QLC+ has to read both registry and ini files
- we have to tell QLC+ if the changed settings should be stored in ini file or registry
- or we have to tell QLC+ to use ini files only.
For a proof of concept, find all QSettings constructors and add QSettings::IniFormat before the first parameter. That should read/write from/to ini file.
You'll need to add type conversion if they are not present already, since ini files return everything as string. There might be a problem with key names as well.
Jano
Problem is how to achieve backward compatibility:
- QLC+ has to read both registry and ini files
- we have to tell QLC+ if the changed settings should be stored in ini file or registry
- or we have to tell QLC+ to use ini files only.
For a proof of concept, find all QSettings constructors and add QSettings::IniFormat before the first parameter. That should read/write from/to ini file.
You'll need to add type conversion if they are not present already, since ini files return everything as string. There might be a problem with key names as well.
Jano