Help with Windows Registry

[Ken Ray]

On 8/11/05 6:59 AM, "Michael" <dweeble at wi.rr.com> wrote:

> Hello
> I've run into getting the hexadecimal data from the windows registry. I
> need to pull the Value Data from a Dword Value but I just get a "0". I'm
> trying this:
> put queryRegistry("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\CurrentControSet\Control
> \IDConfigDB\Alias\0001\ProfileNumber\")into field tNum
> Do I need to convert this Value Data since its Hexadecimal or can the
> value be read and placed into a field without conversion ?
> Any help with this would be great

Take a look at the tip at my site:

http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/revolution.htm?_win001

This has to do with *setting* binary data in the registry, but you only need
to do the reverse in order to retrieve it.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com