howto: set windows system variables with Qt

[informatics]

simple question:
howto: set windows system variables with Qt
is there a way 2 do this with Qt?

cheers fil

[Gopala Krishna]

How about

system("set path <reqd value>");

[informatics]

ok thx!

but then it would be

system("set path=<reqd value>");

ok and how do i get one ;)

thanks!

cheers fil

[Gopala Krishna]

Ok thanks for correcting. I generally don't use windows :p

[informatics]

i know i'm one of the singles developing on windows :p

btw.: u know how 2 get an environment variable?

[Gopala Krishna]

BTW the environment variable might not be set permanently. Probably the variable might me reset just after system function.
So i'm not sure whether it works or not.

[Gopala Krishna]

btw.: u know how 2 get an environment variable?

getenv()

Found this link in google http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp?g=cplusplus&seqNum=136&rl=1
It might help you.

[bst]

Hi,

QProcess supports accessing environment variables for the current process with environment(), setEnvironment() and QProcess::systemEnvironment().

To change the system's environment you probably have to change the registry, see: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682653.aspx

HTH, Bernd

[pdolbey]

Please take into account that in many corporate systems, users are not administrators and are not guaranteed to have read/write access in the HKLM where these keys are maintained (actually its HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Executive\Path). This had been the source of many a jolly issue where HKLM registry keys are being opened with KEY_ALL_ACCESS which subsequently fails (in other peoples apps i should add:))

Pete