Hi, i'm trying to deal with the winregistry module. But I've one problem. If i have a enumeration of names (enumValueNames), i don't know the the types of this values. I've not found any function inside the module to ask for this. Here my dirty solution to get the type:
import winregistry
proc RegistryGetValueType(h: RegHandle, key: string): string =
var
iErr = 0
readStr: string
readMultiStr = newSeq[string]()
readInt32: int32
readInt64: int64
readBinary = newSeq[byte]()
try:
readMultiStr = h.readMultiString(key) # REG_MULTI_SZ
except RegistryError:
iErr = 1
if iErr == 1:
try:
readStr = h.readExpandString(key) # REG_EXPAND_SZ
except RegistryError:
iErr = 2
if iErr == 2:
try:
readStr = h.readString(key) # REG_SZ
except RegistryError:
iErr = 3
if iErr == 3:
try:
readInt32 = h.readInt32(key) # REG_DWORD
except RegistryError:
iErr = 4
if iErr == 4:
try:
readInt64 = h.readInt64(key) # REG_QWORD
except RegistryError:
iErr = 5
if iErr == 5:
try:
readBinary = h.readBinary(key) # REG_BINARY
except RegistryError:
iErr = 6
case iErr
of 6:
return "UNKNOWN_TYPE"
of 5:
return "REG_BINARY"
of 4:
return "REG_QWORD"
of 3:
return "REG_DWORD"
of 2:
return "REG_SZ"
of 1:
return "REG_EXPAND_SZ"
of 0:
return "REG_MULTI_SZ"
else:
discard
# example
var
h: RegHandle
try:
h = open(r"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control", samRead or samQueryValue)
echo RegistryGetValueType(h, "PreshutdownOrder") # output --> REG_MULTI_SZ
except RegistryError:
echo "Registry Open Error"
finally:
close(h)