Re: REG_BINARY

Ryan Styles wrote: 
An application a friend of mine made a while back stores some numbers
in the registry using the REG_BINARY format (I have no idea why he did
this) and I want to be able to READ those numbers and translate them
into something readable by a normal human being on a label. So, I
guess my question would be: How do you do this?

It depends what format the number actually is in the registry. Is it an integer? Floating point? How many bytes is it? If you know the type, you can just do (Eg. 4 byte integer. Assuming that you know how to use TRegistry):

var i:integer;

reg.ReadBinaryData('MyValue',i,sizeof(i));

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock
.

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