Technical Information

WARNING

The following information is not for those that are feight of heart, it is assumed that you have some technical knowledge of NT/95.

The Registry

Apache Configuration Editor stores all of its configuration information in the NT/95 Registry under the following keys.

\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DarkStar\ApacheConfig

\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\DarkStar\ApacheConfig

The uninstall routine can be found in:

\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ApacheConfig

Subkeys under \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DarkStar\ApacheConfig

This key has one subkey, as follows:

Key	Description
Config	The configuration settings for this user.

Subkeys under \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\DarkStar\ApacheConfig

This key has several subkeys, as follows:

Key	Description
Config	The global configuration settings.
QuickConfig	The global configuration settings for the Quick Configuration options.
Templates	All configuration item details.

Values under \HKEY_*\Software\DarkStar\Launch\Config

HKEY_* refers to both HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

These values are used to configure the program, values are used in the following order: HKEY_CURRENT_USER, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, programmed default.

Programmed defaults are hard coded at compile time.

Value Name	Value Type	Default	Values	Description
ConfirmDelete	DWORD	1	0 or 1	Confirmation of deletion of items.
DefaultConfigFilePath	String	[Install Path]\Default	N/A	This is where the configuration files for QuickConfig are stored.
DefaultConfigPath	String	[Install Path]\conf	N/A	This is the default config file path.
HelpPath	String	N/A	This is where the help files can be found.
ProgramPath	String	[InstallPath]	N/A	This is where ApacheConfig is installed.
SaveConfigPath	DWORD	1	0 or 1	This is where the Save config path value from the configuration dialog is stored, 0 is unchecked and 1 is checked.
SaveOnExit	DWORD	1	0 or 1	This is where the Save Settings on Exit value from the configuration dialog is stored, 0 is unchecked and 1 is checked.
ToolBarDesc	DWORD	1	0 or 1	This is where the Text on ToolBar value from the configuration dialog is stored.
WindowDivider	DWORD	200	0 to 32767	This is where the postion of the divider bar is stored.

Values under \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\DarkStar\ApacheConfig\Templates

These values are a database of configuration items.

This key only contains subkeys, each subkey is the name of the configuraiton option, and from there these subkeys contain the following infotmaiton:

Value Name	Value Type	Default	Values	Description
Default	String	N/A	N/A	This is where the configuration item default value is stored, this is always a string value even for numbers.
Description	String	N/A	N/A	This is the description for the item.
Parent	DWORD	0	This is the number of child this item can have, for leaf items this should be 0, for group items this should be 1.
Template	DWORD	N/A	N/A	This is the template used when displaying this item. The following templates are currently defined: 117 Default Template 118 Yes/No Template 119 On/Off Template 120 Numeric Template 123 Directory Template (Unix Style) 124 Directory Template (Dos Style) 126 Information Template (Should not be used)

Values under \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\DarkStar\ApacheConfig\QuickConfig

This key hold the defaults for the quick configuration option, each item corresponds directly to one of the fields in the QuickConfig dialog box.