[DUG] Program design question

[Alistair George]

Hi John.
I dislike writing to the registry personally, it gives me a feeling of 
discomfort; due to the registry being a critical part of the windows 
O/S. However, what does give me a warm fuzzy feeling are ini files (use 
inifiles).

>A program design question: whether to put extra functionality into one
>program or several.
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The concept sounds fine. Your monitor program could write the data to an 
ini file in the program directory (or wherever), with data exactly as 
you need. I would contain the logfile within the inifile, but if the log 
is lengthy, at the end, to save scanning through the lot for control 
fields. INI files are just as easy, if not easier to write/read than the 
registry as well.

Just write the last programs form name to the INIfile for requirement 
below. But possibly you mean

|ShellExecute(Handle, Operation, FileName, Params, Folder, ShowCmd)

eg

||*uses* ShellAPI;

...

*if* ShellExecute(Form1.Handle, *nil*,
    'c:\windows\general.txt', *nil*, *nil*, SW_SHOW) <= 32 *then*
  Application.MessageBox('Couldn''t execute the application',
    'Error', MB_ICONEXCLAMATION);

ShellExecute(Form1.Handle, *nil*, 'c:\windows\notepad.exe',
  'c:\windows\general.txt', *nil*, SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED);

ShellExecute(Form1.Handle, 'open', 'c:\windows\notepad.exe',
  'general.txt', 'c:\windows', SW_SHOWNORMAL);

ShellExecute(Form1.Handle, *nil*, PChar(fname + '.txt'),
  *nil*, *nil*, SW_MAXIMIZE);

ShellExecute(Form1.Handle, *nil*, 'c:\windows\notepad.exe',
  *nil*, *nil*, SW_SHOWNORMAL);|

Al+

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