INI, Text File Reader...

[zehd]

Just so I'm not reinventing the wheel...

I'm getting in deep into VB.net ( I have Visual Studio, and I'm learning to read C# too, but that's just so I can finally understand the code examples...)

I'd like to be able to read and write INI files and other text files used by other 3rd part programs like Comskip.

I'd like to be able to write something like

x = INIQuery ([comskip.ini filepath], "live_tv")

And get x = 1 or 0...

Here's a chunk of that ini

Code:

sage_framenumber_bug=0
sage_minute_bug=0
live_tv=1                                          ; set to 1 if you use parallelprocessing and need the output while recording
live_tv_retries=4            ; change to 16 when using live_tv in BTV, used for mpeg PS and TS
dvrms_live_tv_retries=300            ; only used for dvr_ms

I had to write something quite ugly for VB6 but had to work around dealing with crlf spaces and tabs existing.

Does someone have a sample of how they create/read/write values for file like this?

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BTW, I have no idea why it took me so long to get into .net. Everything seems to be sooooo much easier... Just playing with XML right now....

[zehd]

BTW, I have no idea why it took me so long to get into .net. Everything seems to be sooooo much easier... Just playing with XML right now....

Wow, That was so easy... Good to go

[whurlston]

I'm getting in deep into VB.net ( I have Visual Studio, and I'm learning to read C# too

:eek:

I must be needing glasses.

[mvallevand]

:eek:

I must be needing glasses.

Zehd wrote C# not "See Sharp"

Martin

[whurlston]

That's what I thought he wrote. I was beginning to wonder if I'd ever see that post from him. I've been trying to get hime to move to .Net for ages. Frank, see any improvements in XMLTv processing speeds?

[zehd]

That's what I thought he wrote. I was beginning to wonder if I'd ever see that post from him. I've been trying to get hime to move to .Net for ages. Frank, see any improvements in XMLTv processing speeds?

I'm just getting into reading and writing xml snippets (Ex Em El). I was certainly going to see how far I get with your serializer, and would probably be pleading for help, then...

But for now, I have enough getting comfortable with sqlite3, the registry, INIs, Metadata, inet access.

There are still a lot of concepts I need to learn, things I've never really paid attention to. But I know already .net is the way to go, and I'm sure the New Ultra is gonna be quick...

[zehd]

Zehd wrote C# not "See Sharp"

Martin

That's funny guys, I bet you waited a long time for that joke. Needing glasses - See Sharp...

The musician in me never really thought outside of that joke until it was 'pointed' out to me...

[zehd]

That's what I thought he wrote. I was beginning to wonder if I'd ever see that post from him. I've been trying to get hime to move to .Net for ages. Frank, see any improvements in XMLTv processing speeds?

Well I would if I could just get past a few concepts. Having trouble finding the basic information so that I can get a running start, searching for snippets..

I'm trying to strike a balance in reinventing the wheel in so far as I learn how the wheel turns, and don't kill myself knowing others have already done a lot of work...

I'm having a hard time understanding StrongType and Serialization.

My feeling is that it is faster for an app to EXPECT a structure from the XML it is reading, then to 'try and figure out' what the format is.

So, A strong typed class would have all the blanks ready to be filled in when reading a Programme record. Then I could reference the tags almost directly.

Next with serialization, I suspect it is a matter of:
load the programme records in one at a time into an input object
adjust the data
output one at a time (perhaps into a object)
writing..

(BTW, I'm totally keeping everything Variable driven -- some poor practises from VB6 made my apps REQUIRE the GB-PVR Recording Service to Interact with Desktop)

Of course I want to understand this in regards to xmltv enhancing, but I want to be able to use any type of XML

[whurlston]

Ok, being self taught, I may not have all the terminology correct but here goes:

StrongTyping just means having a class with a defined structure for data. This is what I created with the xmltv class.

(De)Serialization is just a method reading and writing data from a text/xml file and populating that strongtyped class.

In my xmltv class (I think that's what I called it, I'd have to look again), there is a ReadFrom(string FileName) which would read the file and populate all the data.

Code:

XmlTv.Tv xmltv = new XmlTv.Tv();
            xmltv.ReadFrom(@"C:\xmltv\DigitalCable.xml");
            foreach (XmlTv.Programme p in xmltv.Programmes)
            {
                // the AddDays value would be the number of day before consider old * -1.
                // This is used since the isNew value is not always correct.
                if (p.isNew || p.OriginalAirDate > p.Start.AddDays(-7))
                {
                    p.Title[0].Text += " *";
                }
            }

[zehd]

Ok, being self taught, I may not have all the terminology correct but here goes:

StrongTyping just means having a class with a defined structure for data. This is what I created with the xmltv class.

(De)Serialization is just a method reading and writing data from a text/xml file and populating that strongtyped class.

In my xmltv class (I think that's what I called it, I'd have to look again), there is a ReadFrom(string FileName) which would read the file and populate all the data.

Code:

XmlTv myXmltv = new XmlTv();
bool b = myXmltv.ReadFrom(myFile.xml);
if (b)
{
// myXmltv should now contain all the data from the xmltv file
foreach (XmlTv.Programme p in myXmltv.Programmes)
{
if (p.isNew) p.Title += " *";
}
}

This is all from memory so it may be slightly different. I'll provide you a real sample later tonight.

That would be great...