Can't work with REGDB_STRING_MULTI in IS 2011

[Roman_V_]

Hello!

Since upgrade from 2009 to 2011 I've got trouble with writing multistring values to registry. Before RegDBSetKeyValueEx string svValues looks great, with nulls at their places (I checked it by printing every byte). But RegDBSetKeyValueEx function writes bad data in registry.

Please check my example below

Registry before
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Example]
"RootDevice"=hex(7):7b,00,46,00,39,00,44,00,35,00,31,00,42,00,34,00,39,00,2d,\
00,39,00,32,00,34,00,37,00,2d,00,34,00,31,00,45,00,32,00,2d,00,41,00,35,00,\
37,00,37,00,2d,00,35,00,32,00,45,00,33,00,35,00,44,00,46,00,45,00,45,00,32,\
00,38,00,31,00,7d,00,00,00,7b,00,44,00,34,00,46,00,32,00,41,00,37,00,39,00,\
39,00,2d,00,35,00,41,00,46,00,39,00,2d,00,34,00,41,00,44,00,34,00,2d,00,39,\
00,44,00,36,00,38,00,2d,00,38,00,31,00,31,00,34,00,45,00,39,00,46,00,44,00,\
36,00,45,00,45,00,35,00,7d,00,00,00,7b,00,43,00,43,00,41,00,33,00,38,00,35,\
00,31,00,46,00,2d,00,34,00,34,00,45,00,46,00,2d,00,34,00,43,00,35,00,44,00,\
2d,00,42,00,39,00,33,00,37,00,2d,00,39,00,45,00,41,00,43,00,37,00,45,00,41,\
00,41,00,38,00,32,00,35,00,46,00,7d,00,00,00,00,00
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InstallScript
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STRING svValues, svVal;
NUMBER nvType, nvSize, lRes;
LIST listVals;

begin

szKey = "Software\\Example";
szName = "RootDevice";
szRemoveValue = "{D4F2A799-5AF9-4AD4-9D68-8114E9FD6EE5}";


RegDBSetDefaultRoot(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE);

if RegDBGetKeyValueEx ( szKey, szName, nvType, svValues, nvSize) < 0 then
return FALSE;
endif;

listVals = ListCreate(STRINGLIST);
StrGetTokens(listVals,svValues,"");

lRes = ListGetFirstString(listVals, svVal);
while (lRes != END_OF_LIST)
if svVal = szRemoveValue then
ListDeleteString(listVals);
endif;

lRes = ListGetNextString (listVals, svVal);



endwhile;

svValues = "";
//write new values
StrPutTokens(listVals,svValues,"",TRUE);

RegDBSetKeyValueEx ( szKey, szName, nvType, svValues, SizeOf(svValues));


end;
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Registry after
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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Example]
"RootDevice"=hex(7):7b,00,46,00,39,00,44,00,35,00,31,00,42,00,34,00,39,00,2d,\
00,39,00,32,00,34,00,37,00,2d,00,34,00,31,00,45,00,32,00,2d,00,41,00,35,00,\
37,00,37,00,2d,00,35,00,32,00,45,00,33,00,35,00,44,00,46,00,45,00,45,00,32,\
00,38,00,31,00,7d,00,00,00,79,00,3d,00,25,00,6c,00,64,00,09,00,52,00,65,00,\
73,00,6f,00,6c,00,76,00,65,00,45,00,6d,00,62,00,65,00,64,00,64,00,65,00,64,\
00,3d,00,25,00,6c,00,64,00,00,00,36,00,37,00,43,00,41,00,36,00,45,00,41,00,\
41,00,39,00,42,00,34,00,7d,00,5c,00,44,00,00,00[/PHP]

You will see that new registry value is incorrect and contains strange things like "y=%ld ResolveEmbedded=%ld".

Thanks in advance

[Roman_V_]

I've found a hotfix and it seems to work fine!

[enanrum]

Can you elaborate on the HotFix! Was the HotFix from InstallShield? Which one?