Specifications

How your InfoMaker environment is managed
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Format of INI files
The InfoMaker initialization file uses the Windows INI file format. It has three
types of elements:
• Section names, which are enclosed in square brackets
• Keywords, which are the names of preference settings
• Values, which are numeric or text strings, assigned as the value of the
associated keyword
A variable can be listed with no value specified, in which case the default is
used.
Some sections are always present by default, but others are created only when
you specify different preferences. If you specify preferences for another painter
or tool, InfoMaker creates a new section for it at the end of the file.
Where the
initialization file is kept
The initialization file is called IM.INI and is installed in the same directory as
the InfoMaker executable file.
Telling InfoMaker
where your
initialization file is
You can keep your initialization file in another location and tell InfoMaker
where it can find it by specifying the location in the System Options dialog box.
You might want to do this if you use more than one version of InfoMaker or if
you are running InfoMaker over a network.
❖ To record your initialization path:
1 Select Tools>System Options from the menu bar.
2 On the General tab page, enter the path of your initialization file in the
Initialization Path textbox.
InfoMaker records the path in the Windows registry.
How InfoMaker finds
the initialization file
InfoMaker looks in the Windows Registry for a path to the file, and then looks
for the file in the directory where InfoMaker is installed. If InfoMaker cannot
find the initialization file using the path in the Registry, it clears the path value.
If the initialization file
is missing
If InfoMaker does not find the initialization file when it starts up, it recreates
it. However, if you want to retain any preferences you have set, such as
database profiles, keep a backup copy of your initialization file. The recreated
file has the default preferences.