Error writing to RBUILDER.INI (permissions)

rbuser

Hi,

My customer is running Win 2000 and their workstations are Win 2000. They
are having a problem with my app that uses RB5 Pro. When they shut down the
app, the program cannot write to RBUILDER.INI (most likely due to
permissions). My customer says that their "normal users" are specifically
not granted permission to write to files in the WINNT folder, which is where
the file is located. The app runs and closes fine on stations where they
log in as Administrator.

Has anyone else had this problem or is there something I should be doing to
avoid this issue on Win 2K? Can I relocated the RBUILDER.INI file without
touching the source code?

Thanks,
Vinnie Murdico.

digitalmetaphors

For RB6, the user preferences are stored through an open architecture. The
Designer IniStorageType and IniStorageName properties can now be used to
control how and where user preferences are stored. The IniStorageType
property has two predefined options: IniFile and Registry. Additional
IniStorage plug-ins may be defined and registered.

In RB5, the ini file location is hardcoded in the source, and you would have
to change the source to fix this.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors