Progress
Installation and Configuration Guide
Version 9
for Windows
The progress.ini File and the Windows Registry
The
progress.ini
file sets up the user interface environment for Progress applications running on Windows and is an important part of deploying a localized application. It controls parts of the environment that vary across locales, and it allows you to specify colors and fonts.Progress supports the use of the Windows registry on Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows XP, and searches the registry first for system configuration information. However, you can still use an initialization file to ensure that deployed applications are configured correctly and consistently at customer sites. The information from the .ini file can be added to the registry upon installation.
Be sure to create and edit the
progress.ini
file on a system configured like the target system on which you intend to run it. For example, Japanese font names might use Japanese characters. You should edit aprogress.ini
file for use in Japan on a system supporting Japanese.If you edit the
progress.ini
file, runini2reg
to update the registry.The sections of the
progress.ini
file that can typically affect a localized application are the [Startup], [WinChar Startup], and [fonts] sections.[Startup] and [WinChar Startup]
The [Startup] and the [WinChar Startup] sections contain Progress environment-variable settings. The [Startup] section includes the variables for GUI clients, and the [WinChar Startup] section includes the variables for character clients, WebSpeed Agents, and the AppServer.
Table D–4 lists the environment variables that a typical localized application might need.
[fonts]
The [fonts] section of the
progress.ini
sets the fonts that a Progress application running on that system uses. The defaultprogress.ini
file that Progress supplies in the United States sets the following fonts:
These font settings might not apply to all the locales where your application will run. Some of the
%DLC%\prolang
directories containprogress.ini
files with font settings appropriate for that country.
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