Function

Summary

Searches the registry for values associated with a component.

Package

com

Signature

find-component-value name key-name => result, root

Arguments

name

A string.

key-name

A string or a keyword.

Values

result

A Lisp object.

root

A keyword.

Description

The function find-component-value searches the Windows registry for values associated with a component.

name should be the name of a component (either a ProgID or a GUID).

key-name should name a registry key. If it is a string, it should match the key name in the registry. Otherwise key-name can be one of the following keywords:

:library

Returns the library that implements the component (if any)

:inproc-server32

As for :library

:local-server32

Returns the executable that implements the component (if any)

:version

Returns the version

:prog-id

Returns the ProgID

:version-independent-prog-id

Returns the version-independent ProgId

:type-lib

Returns the GUID of the type library

find-component-value returns the value result associated with the given key-name in the registry for component name. If a value is found., then there is a second returned value root which is either :local-machine or :user, indicating the branch of the registry in which the value was found.

find-component-value simply returns nil if it fails to find the information.

When running on 64-bit Windows, 32-bit LispWorks looks in the 32-bit registry view and 64-bit LispWorks looks in the 64-bit registry view. LispWorks does not change the registry reflection settings.

Examples

(com:find-component-value "shell.explorer" :version)