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 * FXRuby -- the Ruby language bindings for the FOX GUI toolkit.
 * Copyright (c) 2001-2009 by Lyle Johnson. All Rights Reserved.
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/**
* The registry maintains a database of persistent settings for an application.
* The settings database is organized in two groups of three layers each.  The
* system-wide settings group contains settings information pertaining to all
* users on a system.  The per-user settings group contains settings affecting
* that user only.
* Each settings group contains a desktop layer, which comprises the settings
* which affect all FOX programs, a vendor layer which holds settings that
* affect all applications from that vendor (e.g. a application-suite), and
* an application layer which holds settings only for a single application.
* The vendor-key and application-key determine which files these layers come
* from, while the "Desktop" key is used for all FOX applications.
* Settings in the system-wide group are overwritten by the per-user group,
* and settings from the "Desktop" layer are overwritten by the vendor-layer;
* vendor-layer settings are overwritten by the application-layer settings.
* Only the per-user, per-application settings ever gets written; the layers
* in the system-group only get written during installation and configuration
* of the application.
* The registry is read when FXApp::init() is called, and written back to the
* system when FXApp::exit() is called.
*/
class FXRegistry : public FXSettings {
public:

  /**
  * Construct registry object; akey and vkey must be string constants.
  * Regular applications SHOULD set a vendor key!
  */
  %extend {
    FXRegistry(const FXString& akey=FXString::null,const FXString& vkey=FXString::null){
      return new FXRbRegistry(akey,vkey);
      }
    }

  /// Read registry
  bool read();

  /// Write registry
  bool write();

  /// Return application key
  const FXString& getAppKey() const;

  /// Return vendor key
  const FXString& getVendorKey() const;

  /**
  * Set ASCII mode; under MS-Windows, this will switch the system to a
  * file-based registry system, instead of using the System Registry API.
  */
  void setAsciiMode(bool asciiMode);

  /// Get ASCII mode
  bool getAsciiMode() const;

  /// Destructor
  virtual ~FXRegistry();
  };

DECLARE_FXOBJECT_VIRTUALS(FXRegistry)