POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.windows: pvengine.ini now integrated into the registry?: Re: pvengine.ini now integrated into the registry?

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From: stevenvh
Date: 13 Apr 2008 09:15:01
Message: <web.4802073bf99d2b765245d3740@news.povray.org>

Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> Jeff Houck wrote:
> > In the latest Beta 3.7.beta25 change log, it mentions the pvengine.ini
> > file is now integrated into the Windows registry. I'm curious as to why
> > this was done? The editor I can understand due to it's tight integration
> > with the Windows GUI manager. But why the pvengine.ini? Thx.
>
> Vista compatibility :-(
>
>  Thorsten, POV-Team

What do you mean, that under Vista an application can't read/write its own files
any more?
While I used the registry in the past, at the moment I'd go for an ini-file in
XML format. Allows to go tree-structured if necessary.

Steven

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