--- Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr wrote:
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Dustin Navea wrote: [...]
Not sure how possible this is or if it has already been thought of just
let
me know, but what about loading the config into memory and having wine
make
it look like the registry while loaded (ie for windows regedit).
I believe Wine already does somethin like this, but maybe not.
[...]
wine can do the processing of both the registry and the config, and then when it is
time
to save the changes done in regedit, wine sorts it out between what needs
to
be written to the actual registry and what needs to be written to the
config
file.
But in any case, this is where you hit problems. When loading the registry or the configuration, Wine simply ignores the comments. And when saving the changes Wine rewrites the registry file from scratch. If we do the same for the configuration file it means we loose all the comments, making it pointless to put them in in the first place...
hmm, I thought that that was why we have the saveonlyupdatedkeys option was to have it only write the keys whose values had changed.. I guess I was mistaken then. How come we rewrite the entire registry, and not just the new/changed data? It seems to me like that would be a CPU cycle killer when it comes to writing that sort of stuff, if the registry is any more than like (i guess?) 10 megs
Of course we could have a special case for the configuration file so that we keep the comments in memory, maybe also keep the file layout and then merge the changes when we save. But that means using a different codebase for the settings and for the registry which I believe is the opposite of what we want to do by moving the settings to the registry.
What if it were to read the comments into a/some comments variable/s and then treat the config file as part of the registry? Or would that still be too much of a different codebase?
===== -- Dustin Navea
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