how to put result of shell function into variable

method · April 9th, 2006, 11:11 PM

Hi all .I have difficulty outputing the value of shell function into massagebox by using regoutput variable. Currently the shell function writes the output to .reg file but i want i want to output it to massage box but it never works!! The output value is list of registery information which are half a page char mostly .

i tried diffrent datatyes and i got diffrent 4 digit integer each time!!
Below is the code and it writes the correct registery values into .reg file but i want to display it in massagebox and non of the data types works!!

Is there any way to display the registeiory information directly into massage box instead of writing it to reg file.?
since i evantually want to get rid of wirting to file process .
I be happy if some expert help me.Thanks

Code:

Private Sub Reg(Path As String)

Dim regoutput

task_id  = shell("Regedit.exe /e " & Chr(34) & Path & Chr(34) & " " & Chr(34) & _
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER" & "\" & "Software\me\" & Chr(34))
'The Char For " is Chr(34)

MsgBox "shell function output: "+regoutput
End Sub

Private Sub Save_Click()


On Error Resume Next

CD.DialogTitle = "Save Registry Backup File As..."
CD.InitDir = App.Path
CD.Flags = &H4
CD.Filter = "Registry File Format (*.reg)|*.reg"
CD.ShowSave

If InStr(CD.FileName, ".reg") Then

Call Reg(CD.FileName)

DoEvents

Text1.Text = CD.FileName


End If

End Sub

BrianWren · April 20th, 2006, 11:42 AM

Method,

In VB you can add a literal " to a string with 2 quotes in a row. So

Code:

    task_id = shell("Regedit.exe /e " & Chr(34) & Path & Chr(34) & " " & Chr(34) & _
                    "HKEY_CURRENT_USER" & "\" & "Software\me\" & Chr(34))

could be

Code:

    task_id = shell("Regedit.exe /e """ & Path & """ ""HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\me\""")

Inasmuch as your code succeeds in creating a file, why don't you just open that file from VB, and read its contents into a message box? I recommend using the FileSystemObject to do thisâI just love its simplicity.

(By the way: your code is not creating the file, RegEdit.exe is.)