Re: Table design for application options

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:46:45 +0100
Message-ID: <41c0be5a$0$21106$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

Hugo Kornelis wrote:

> [DialogSettings]
> XPos=372
> YPos=249
> XSize=280
> YSize=292
> IsMinimized=0
> IsMaximized=0
> IsHidden=0
> IsTopMost=0
> ShowTrayStatus=0
>
> (this is the content of an actual .INI file on my computer)

Yep, INI files are in a TAG=VALUE data format. There are more places where these are used.

Boulder is a set of libraries for using such formats, both in Java and Perl:
http://stein.cshl.org/software/boulder/ and http://stein.cshl.org/software/boulder/docs/Boulder.html

The OP might gain from looking at these. Received on Wed Dec 15 2004 - 16:46:45 CST