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i have notices that if i do many consecutive ini reads before creating a gui, my exe takes forever (4+ seconds) to display the gui so i conclude that it is likely that the inireads are causing the problem. i would do about 30 inireads and i have about 30 lines of gui. i don't have the script with me at this time so im not entirely sure of the number of lines. but i do remember that cutting some inireads greatly sped up the loading of the gui.

can i still take neumerous pieces of data from an ini file like that and do it quickly?

Make sure you didn't leave a sleep somewhere between the lines.
This happend to me as i debugged my settings loading routine with sleep and tooltip. 30 inireads shouldn't take that long.

IniRead opens and closes files each time which makes it very slow. You can avoid this by making the DllCalls yourself or switching to a better data storage system like the registry, XML or SQLite.

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If IniRead is really that slow, Loop, Read might be worth considering. At least doesn't have to open and close the file for each line. You could still use IniWrite to save settings, since you presumably don't need to do that as often.

tks guys that's kinda what i thought