Accessing the registry

[Alex5222]

I am making a program in C++ and was wondering how to make a program
access and change the registry. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

 

[David White]

I am making a program in C++ and was wondering how to make a program
access and change the registry. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

What is "the registry"? Is it the registry of births, deaths and marriages?

This newsgroup concerns itself with standard C++, which I don't believe
includes accessing any kind of registry.

DW

 

[Andre Kostur]

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I am making a program in C++ and was wondering how to make a program
access and change the registry. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You're way off topic for comp.lang.c++. The topc here is Standard C++.
There is no concept of a "registry" in Standard C++. You'll need to ask in
a vendor- or platform-specific newsgroup.

 

[Alex8022]

Argh! I'm talking about the Windows registry. I know of a lot of
programs that change the windows registry. Would you please just tell
me how to do change it with c++ under windows?

 

[red floyd]

Argh! I'm talking about the Windows registry. I know of a lot of
programs that change the windows registry. Would you please just tell
me how to do change it with c++ under windows?

Ask in a newsgroup that has "windows" or "microsoft" in its name.
You've been told that it's OT here.

 

[David White]

Argh! I'm talking about the Windows registry. I know of a lot of
programs that change the windows registry. Would you please just tell
me how to do change it with c++ under windows?

This is completely the wrong place for that. There are uncountable Windows
newsgroups, and this isn't one of them. This might point you in the right
direction: http://www.slack.net/~shiva/welcome.txt

DW

 

[codigo]

Argh! I'm talking about the Windows registry. I know of a lot of
programs that change the windows registry. Would you please just tell
me how to do change it with c++ under windows?

And i know a lot of operating systems that don't use or have a registry.
Incidentally, C++ works as expected in most if not all of them. Why? Because
the folks who support and develop the standard chose not to support
proprietary systems. Bless them.

To you that may seem to be a limitation, to us its why C++ is stronger than
ever. To understand why: try Win32, MFC or WTL to write your registry
program and consider the fact that the said program only runs on some
windows platforms. This situation is exactly what C++ attempts to prevent
through its standard.

Lets face it, why should C++ reinvent the wheel every time some company
decides to implement some non-documented, closed source and proprietary
interface?

Ask your question in a relevent newsgroup. Search for "microsoft" and you'll
get 50 groups or so.