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Reading from the Registry
In a previous article I showed you how to save settings in the
registry. Now I'm going to show you how to get them back out again.
The basic syntax is:
GetSetting("MyApp", "Category",
"InfoName", "DefaultValue")
So lets look at the article on saving information in the registry.
I used this example to save a username:
SaveSetting "My App", "Users",
"Username", Name1.Text
Now, we're going to pull this information out and and display the
username in the title of the application. This code goes in the
Load sub in your application. The name of the form we are working
on is irrelevant because I used the term "me" which refers
to the current form the code is on.
Me.Caption = "Weclcome " + GetSetting("MyApp",
"Users", "Username", "To MyApp")
If no value is found in the registery, the default value is used
so if no username was present, the applications title would be:
Welcome To MyApp
If the username in the register was "Jimbo" the applications
title would be:
Welcome Jimbo
When using GetSettings you can't use it on its own. You must use
as as part of an equasion such as
A = GetSettings
or
If GetSettings = a Then do b
etc. It simply supplies one piece of information from the registry
just like a variable.
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