Accessing Windows registry with Qt5
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I am currently trying to port a program I wrote in Qt4 to Qt5 which I have just downloaded. The one problem I have ran into is accessing the Windows registry. I did this in a very clean and simple way in Qt4 using a class called QSettings, but it does not appear to exist in Qt5, and from a Google search it seems it was taken out for some reason. I'm wondering if there is a straightforward way to do this in Qt5 or is it a case of using the RegOpenKeyEx(), RegGetValue(), RegSetKeyValue() methods directly?
Any info much appreciated!
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AFAIK it's still there in 5.0: "QSettings":http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtcore/qsettings.html
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Curious as to why the QSettings methods work on XP but not Win7. I have verified that the settings are in a Win7 registry in same location as XP.
Using the following code…
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// extract Windows Registry settings and save the data we're interested in..Qt method
QSettings settings( "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft", QSettings::NativeFormat );// windows system identifiers..notcase sensitive..fyi
QStringList wids;wids.append( "1:" + settings.value( "Windows NT/CurrentVersion/ProductId" ).toString().trimmed() );
wids.append( "2:" + settings.value( "Internet Explorer/Registration/ProductID" ).toString().trimmed() );
wids.append( "3:" + settings.value( "Cryptography/MachineGuid" ).toString().trimmed() );
@Is there a permission or UAC setting that blocks access to the registry in Win7 (&8) ?
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Well, modern windows systems do "virtualization" of some parts of the windows registry as well as the file system. So, if you try to write to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE for instance with an application that does not have elevated access rights, it ends up in a a part of the registry somewhere under the HKEY_LOCAL_USER settings.
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Yep. Writing to the registry I can understand the need/requirement for elevated access privileges.
It seems odd that reading from a registry entry is blocked. The above "setting.value" call returns an empty string..even though I have verified with regedit that the entry exists and contains string data.
Thinking out loud..maybe the " QSettings settings()" instantiation is the problem..ie it's blocked by UAC or whatever and just returns an empty QSettings object.
