Trouble with baReadIni on Mac OSX

Question

I’m trying to diagnose this problem remotely so
I’m sorry my info is a little vague at this time. I’ve
got a program that reads and writes to an ini file via baReadIni.
Works fine on Windows XP and Macs in two locations ... but the
client gave the program to a third individual and his system
won’t read the ini file ... I modified the program to give me
some diagnostics and as far as I can tell Buddy API registers
properly, copies the ini file to the user’s prefs folder
without an error, but when it reads the ini file it just returns
the default values. The third party got the project via FTP so
about the only thing I can think of is that maybe the ini file
somehow became unreadable. My diagnostics confirmed the ini file is
in the correct location. Anyone have ideas?

Answer 1

I had an issue a while back with some Macs when using the
baWriteIni
command. The issue would cause the first item you added to
the ini file
to become corrupt. This would then cause baReadIni to always
return the
default value when you were trying to read it back, as the
entry didn't
exist. For example a line like "test=1" would come up
something like
this "st=t" (I can't remember exactly).
I worked around this issue by always adding an unused entry
to a new ini
file before I added anything of value. For example I add
(using
baWriteIni) "buffer=none".
AstrO