Re: [Jython-users] Re: [Jython-dev] Re: where to put the registry file on Win NT

[Samuele P. <pe...@in...>]

Hi

[Armin Ehrenfels]
> Hi Samuele,
> 
> Samuele Pedroni schrieb:
> 
> > Under w2k one can put a personal .jython file (contents as the registry)
> > under Documents and Settings/*user-name* (or something like that)
> > in NT there should be something similar, just start jython
> > and ask:
> >
> > from java.lang import System
> > System.getProperty("user.home")
> >
> > in that directory you can put your .jython file and deduce the general
> > case <wink>
> 
> That was my first guess. So, I copied .jython from Linux to registry in
> C:\winnt\profiles\armin which is the value of user.home. Didn't work. It
> only works when the registry file is in Jython's installation directory.
> 
> Regards
Note: the personal file should be named .jython also under windows !

I have tried this concretely under w9x (home ~ c:\windows)
and w2k (home ~ see above) and it works.

Things to check:
* a registry (.jython) file should respect the hosting os conventions:
  - Windows: path sep \\ or /, path list sep ;
  - Un*x: path sep / , path list sep :
 
  having a single \ (which is a continues-next-line marker) 
  around instead of a \\ seems to prevent proper parsing of the file
  (symptom: sys.registry seems empty ({})), (we are using the java
  api for that)

* Test: copy registry from jython inst dir to your home dir as .jython and put a 
line like  
    a.Test = yup 
in it, load jython and check whether sys.registry contains a.Test=yup.

Regards.