Re: [Boost-build] Win32 registry functions

From: Phillip Seaver (phil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-08 10:30:20

Rene Rivera wrote:
> Bojan Resnik wrote:
>   
>>   Sometimes, especially when needing to detect installed versions of
>> some third-party program, I need functions to enumerate registry
>> subkeys or registry values of a given key. I have written two new
>> builtin functions W32_REGKEYS and W32_REGVALUES which, given a
>> registry key path, return lists of its subkeys and values,
>> respectively.
>>
>> Example:
>>    for local subkey in [ W32_REGKEYS "HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft" ]
>>    {
>>        ECHO $(subkey) ;
>>    }
>>
>>    for local value in [ W32_REGVALUES "HKCU\\Environment" ]
>>    {
>>        ECHO $(value) ;
>>    }
>>
>> Attached are patches to builtin.c and w32_getreg.c that add these new
>> functions to bjam.
>>     
>
> How are those different from the existing "W32_GETREG" builtin?
>
> See the bottom of 
> <http://engineering.meta-comm.com/resources/cs-win32_metacomm/doc/html/jam/language.html#jam.language.rules.builtins>.
>   

Looks to me like the W32_GETREG builtin just lets you get one value,
while those let you enumerate values and keys.

Phillip