Using the Registry - Any Gotchas?

Jim

Is there anything to watch for when using the Sketchup.write_default and Sketchup.read_default methods?

I know it is a pain if you are trying to store Windows paths in the registry, i.e.


C;\Program Files\Google\Google Sketchup 7

because the '' character is special in strings.

Is it a smart strategy to just encode (am i thinking of escape?) everything before it goes in? (and how might I do that?)

Chris Fullmer

There might be something in this thread, starting with the post I've linked to. Todd tried to explain it to me, but I don't know what hex encoding is.

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=16862&p=134075&hilit=+registry#p134075

Maybe a start?

thomthom

Could do a test with a set of characters and see if it's stored properly. Maybe the method encodes it before saving...

AdamB

@jim said:

Is there anything to watch for when using the Sketchup.write_default and Sketchup.read_default methods?

I know it is a pain if you are trying to store Windows paths in the registry, i.e.


> C;\Program Files\Google\Google Sketchup 7
>

because the '' character is special in strings.

Is it a smart strategy to just encode (am i thinking of escape?) everything before it goes in? (and how might I do that?)

Yes, but Ruby 'knows' about unix forward slashes so I tend to always do a:

a_filepath_string.gsub(/(\)/, '/')

to everything regardless of platform which then works for PC & Mac.

Adam

Jim

Thanks Adam, I was actually using the following:


 str.gsub!(/\\/, '\\\\')

But I think simply changing it to '/' is a better solution, and will modify inputbox.rb I suppose it's possible for someone to want to use \ for some other string, though.

I'm also escaping double-quotes:


str.gsub!(/"/, '\"')

Thanks.