net.sf.sdedit.util
Class WindowsRegistry

java.lang.Object
  java.lang.Thread
      net.sf.sdedit.util.WindowsRegistry

All Implemented Interfaces:

Runnable

public final class WindowsRegistry
extends Thread

Utility class for accessing the Windows registry by means of the reg.exe tool.

Author:

Markus Strauch

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.lang.Thread

Thread.State, Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class java.lang.Thread

MAX_PRIORITY, MIN_PRIORITY, NORM_PRIORITY

Method Summary

static String	getValue(String category, String key) Starts a process on a newly created thread that uses the reg.exe tool in order to compute the value for the given category and key.
void	run()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Thread

activeCount, checkAccess, clone, countStackFrames, currentThread, destroy, dumpStack, enumerate, getAllStackTraces, getContextClassLoader, getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, getId, getName, getPriority, getStackTrace, getState, getThreadGroup, getUncaughtExceptionHandler, holdsLock, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, setName, setPriority, setUncaughtExceptionHandler, sleep, sleep, start, stop, stop, suspend, toString, yield

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

run

public void run()

Specified by:

run in interface Runnable

Overrides:

run in class Thread

See Also:

Thread.run()

getValue

public static String getValue(String category,
                              String key)

Starts a process on a newly created thread that uses the reg.exe tool in order to compute the value for the given category and key. If the tool does not perform the task in at most two seconds, or if the tool does not find the key, we return null

Parameters:

category - the registry category in which to lookup the key

key - the name of the key

Returns:

the value for the key