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Hi Chris,

I'm often working with ReadINI/WriteINI and I've heaps o' lines with them in my programs.
My suggestion: Introducing a special kind of variable that's made for INIs. The only special to that var would be a sign inbetween, e.g. the underscore. So you declare such a var like this:


Those vars would behave like normal vars until you write:



Than all variables of the type a_b will flush into that mentioned INI.

After a program start you only write:



And that's it. A bunch of vars is created, and filled with values. So you never can forget to save a value to an INI. My suggestion for another special character for signing those vars could be the §-sign, which we all should had (do we?). But the underscore is also not a problem unless you do a WriteINI.

Good idea?

Peter
(fan'o'AHK)

It's interesting but I don't think cost vs. benefit justifies building in a set of special variables and features solely for use with INI files. You could probably do something like this on your own by calling a function or subroutine whose job it is to build an array of pending data, which is later written as a batch to an INI file.

I agree with Chris -- I find reading/writing to ini files in AHK about as simple as it can get, and it makes writing scripts a lot easier than if you had to do all the file open stuff yourself.