DROD's registry information is placed here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Caravel/DROD
If you are not familiar with how the registry is organizes, it works kind of like file folders but folders are called "
keys"
instead. A key can contain other keys. We do not change any keys that preexisted befored the DROD installation. It all goes in the new "
Caravel/DROD"
key that you see above.
Inside of the "
DROD"
key, we keep one key for each version of DROD that was installed on this computer. So if you installed versions 1.5 and 1.6, you will have .../DROD/1_5 and .../DROD/1_6 keys.
Inside each of these two keys are the following values:
"
InstallLocation"
- Where DROD.EXE and other files are located on your disk.
"
Version"
- The exact version of the executable including the build#. So it will be something like "
1.6.5 Build 49"
.
And that's all we put, and maybe all we will ever have. The registry entries tend to work as a bootstrap for the installer to find the location of your dat files. The thinking is that once the "
official"
location of DROD is known, all other settings can be found there, so we don't bother to put more things into the registry.
-Erik
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