Problem reading an INI file

[sbick]

I'm having problems reading an ini file:

function getAppIniSettings(){
var vFile= "C:\\Projects\\player.ini";
trace("File.exists(vFile) : " + vFile + " exists? " + File.exists(vFile) );
var iniFile = new Ini(vFile);
trace("iniFile: " + iniFile);
                trace("getSection: " + iniFile.getSection("Resolution"));
trace("getSectionNames: " + iniFile.getSectionNames());
}
getAppIniSettings();

The following output is traced:

FSCommand("FFish_Run", "Initialize")
File.exists(vFile) : C:\Projects\player.ini exists? true
iniFile: [object INI]
getSection:
getSectionNames:

The ini file contains:

[Resolution]
width=1024
height=768

I can not access the section or key values.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Steve

[klutsh]

try this

function getAppIniSettings(){
   var vFile= "C:\\Projects\\player.ini";
   trace("File.exists(vFile) : " + vFile + " exists? " + File.exists(vFile) );
   var iniFile = new Ini(vFile);
   var names = iniFile.getSectionNames();
   for (i = 0; i < names.length; i++){
      trace("getSection: "+names[i]);
      keys = iniFile.getSection(names[i]);
      for (j = 0; j < keys.length;j++){
         trace("SectionNames: "+keys[j]);
      }
   }
}
getAppIniSettings()

[sbick]

Thanks for the reply.

However, with the code you've supplied, I'm still not getting any section names - the names array length returns 0.

The code is finding the ini file - the File.exists() returns true.

Almost like the ini file is empty - I've verified it isn't and is shown in my previous post.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Steve

[sbick]

I just modified the ini file to contain 3 sections. Now it reports that there are only 2 sections being read. It skips the first one (I previously only had 1 section so that's why I thought it wasn't being read in at all).

Anyone know why it doesn't retrieve the first section?

player.ini

[Resolution]
width=1024
height=768
[Resolution2]
width=1024
height=768
[Resolution3]
width=1024
height=768

[SWFKit]

Klutsh's code works very well besides a small problem, thank you, Klutsh.

function getAppIniSettings(){
  var vFile= "C:\\testit.ini";
  trace("File.exists(vFile) : " + vFile + " exists? " + File.exists(vFile) );
  var iniFile = new Ini(vFile);
  var names = iniFile.getSectionNames();
  for (i = 0; i < names.length; i++){
      trace("getSection: "+names[i]);
      keys = iniFile.getSection(names[i]);
      for (j = 0; j < keys.length;j++){
        trace("SectionNames: "+keys[j]);
      }
  }
}

getAppIniSettings();

The getSectionNames method will get all the section names, the result of the above code is

File.exists(vFile) : C:\testit.ini exists? true
getSection: Resolution
SectionNames: width=1024
SectionNames: height=768
getSection: Resolution2
SectionNames: width=1024
SectionNames: height=768
getSection: Resolution3
SectionNames: width=1024
SectionNames: height=768

[sbick]

Thanks again for the reponses.

I found the problem I was having.

At least on my system, using notepad to create the ini, the getSections will retrieve all sections except for the first one. If the ini file begins with a blank line, getSections() results in all sections being retrieved, included the first one.

Strange.

I receive the following output based on the player.ini described in a previous post:


FSCommand("FFish_Run", "Initialize")
File.exists(vFile) : C:\Projects\ccg\FlashTemplate\player.ini exists? true
getSection: Resolution2
SectionNames: width=1024
SectionNames: height=768
getSection: Resolution3
SectionNames: width=1024
SectionNames: height=768

Notice the first "Resolution" section is not being traced back.

Anyone else see this?

Thanks,

Steve

FYI:
player.ini

[Resolution]
width=1024
height=768
[Resolution2]
width=1024
height=768
[Resolution3]
width=1024
height=768

[klutsh]

Here's a different take on doing the same thing

function getAppIniSettings(){
  var vFile= "C:\\Projects\\player.ini";
  trace("File.exists(vFile) : " + vFile + " exists? " + File.exists(vFile) );
  var iniFile = new Ini(vFile);
  var names = iniFile.getSectionNames();
  for (i = 0; i < names.length; i++){
      trace("Section Name: "+names[i]);
      keys = iniFile.getSection(names[i]);
      for (j = 0; j < keys.length;j++){
        var inikey = keys[j].substr(0,keys[j].lastIndexOf("="));
        var inivalue = keys[j].substr(keys[j].indexOf("=")+1,keys[j].length);
        trace("Key Name: "+inikey+", Key Value: "+inivalue)
      }
  }
}
getAppIniSettings();

To get the actual keys value for use though use something like

var iniFile = new Ini("C:\\Projects\\player.ini");
var Rwidth = iniFile.getString("Resolution", "width");
var Rheight = iniFile.getString("Resolution", "height");

or for access to integars

var iniFile = new Ini("C:\\Projects\\player.ini");
var Rwidth = iniFile.getInt("Resolution", "width");
var Rheight = iniFile.getInt("Resolution", "height");

I've package what I used to run and test the top script
Download it: http://www.x-projects.org/readini.rar(1.12MB)