Suggestion to a format like INI which will be cross-platform

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 10:57 pm

I want to have a file which will hold some configurations, like the INI file in Windows but I want it to be cross-platform.
I wonder if there is a format I am unfamiliar with which is what I need here so I wont just end up making a simple text file which will have me duplicating the behavior of a INI file.

PS: Windows' text file ARE cross-platform, right?

Dark_Kilauea · Post by **Dark_Kilauea** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:48 am

ini is basically a text file, so it should be cross platform.

You could also check out xml

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:29 am

There are functions to work with INI within windows.h which I don't want to use.

But XML sounds interesting although I thought it suppose to be used to hold great amount of data and not some simple configurations like INI files..

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:37 am

There had been threads on several ini-file parsers in the forums. Both based on text files or based on XML. As long as you only use Irrlicht methods to access files all code will be quite platform independent.

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:11 pm

hybrid wrote:ini-file parsers

Is the Keyword I was missing when searching the forum..

Thanks, I think I found few useful threads..