Automation - Macro - Bot - Scripting system.

Registry support:

Facility to read and write to the Windows registry.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Registry

list = registry.ListKeys(HKEY, szSubKey)	List keys.
table = registry.ListValues(HKEY, szKey)	List values under a key.
string = registry.GetValue(HKEY, szSubKey, lpValueName)	Get value. Always returns string, but the string can be converted into a numerical value if needed.
registry.SetValue(HKEY, szSubKey, lpValueName, Value)	Set registry value.
registry.DeleteValue(HKEY, szSubKey, lpValueName)	Delete individual values.
registry.DeleteKey(HKEY, szSubKey)	Delete sub-key including all values.

Handle/key constants:

registry.HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

registry.HKEY_CURRENT_USER

registry.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

registry.HKEY_USERS

registry.HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG

INI File support:

Facility to read and write to INI (Initialization) files.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ini_file

list = ini.ListSections(szFileName)    Create a table of all section by name in ini file..

Example:

list = ini.ListSections("test.ini")

for i,v in ipairs(list) do print(i.." "..v) end

section = ini.ListKeys(szSection, szFileName)	Load all the keys and values for the specified section into a table.
string = ini.GetValue(szSection, szKey, szFileName)	Get value by section and key. Returns nil if value not found.<>Returns a string value only, but can be put in to direct numerical form by using tonumber().

Example:

print(tonumber(ini.GetValue("SECTIONONE", “Scale”, “test.ini”)))

bool = ini.SetValue(szSection, szKey, szValue, szFileName)    Write string value by section and key. Returns true if successful.

ini.DeleteKey(szSection, szKey, szFileName)    Delete key.

ini.DeleteSection(szSection, szFileName)     Delete the entire specified section.

XML File Support:

Support to read and write XML (Extensible Markup Language) files.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML

LuaExpat:

Integrated in table name “lxp”.

The basis of which is a “parser” object. Parsing is done by feeding it a single or multiple strings via method :parse().

The actual parsing is done by a series of callbacks. There is no direct support in LuaExpat to save XML files.

See: http://www.keplerproject.org/luaexpat/manual.html

LuaXml:

Integrated in table name “xml”, with support module “LuaXml.mms”.

LuxXml operates along with support module by loading XML files directly into a table.

Tags are uniquely located in tables at index 0. LuxXml supports modifying and direct saving of XML files.

Note: Currently LuxXml looses any comments if the file is written back out.

See: http://www.viremo.de/LuaXML