IniBrowser

...is a very simple application that lets you edit .ini-files the easy way - just as RegEdit for the Win 9x Registry. IniBrowser is intended as an addition, but for seperate config files.

Neveprise-Initiative: Hey, software developers! Please make intense use of ini-files, cos not every data has to be stored into the Registry. The Reg gets bigger and bigger, and without special tools, it gets fragmented - this will slow down Windows on boot and work! Negative examples of using the registry is MS Office 97...although beeing a good product.

   
1) The application

Not much to say: IniBrowser let's you open ini-files and lists all keys with contained datavalues. Just like in regedit, thou canst edit, rename or delet'em.

Note: if sections contain a backslash, the next version of IniBrowser will support a treelist view, so that custom ini-files can have such a structure! Thus, an ini-file could look like dis in code, but will defacto contain a non-linear structure:

[BaseInfo\Version]
Name=SupaApp
Ver=1
Sub=03

[BaseInfo\Location]
exe=\bin\startme.exe
help=\hlp\helpyourself.hlp

Fig.1: main window

 

2) Features & Requirements

-runs on Windows 98 or Win95 + IE4   - visually lists the content of an ini-file
-Pentium 90 or equal recommended   - easily edit the contents
-needs approx. 300 k (app) of free space   - next version supports a tree-architecture