Access FAR settings from plugin

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patrikp
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Access FAR settings from plugin

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Hi, is it possible to access FAR settings from plugin? I would like to get two values: if external viewer is allowed and path to external viewer.

I made this piece of not working code

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	FarSettingsCreate fsc = { sizeof(FarSettingsCreate), NullGuid, INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE };

	if (g_Plugin.Info.SettingsControl(INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE, SCTL_CREATE, 0, &fsc))
	{
		FarSettingsValue value = { sizeof(FarSettingsValue), 0, L"Viewer" };

		intptr_t lvl = g_Plugin.Info.SettingsControl(fsc.Handle, SCTL_OPENSUBKEY, 0, &value);

		if (lvl)
		{
			FarSettingsItem item = { sizeof(FarSettingsItem), lvl, L"UseExternalViewer", FST_QWORD };

			if (g_Plugin.Info.SettingsControl(fsc.Handle, SCTL_GET, 0, &item))
			{
				return TRUE;
			}

			return FALSE;
		}

		g_Plugin.Info.SettingsControl(fsc.Handle, SCTL_FREE, 0, 0);
	}
In my Far3, I have external viewer allowed, but SCTL_GET command fails. Also SCTL_CREATE always returns 0x18, no matter what value is provided as a name.

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Access FAR settings from plugin

Post by DrKnS »

In general, you need to use a predefined constant from FARSETTINGS_SUBFOLDERS enum rather than SCTL_OPENSUBKEY to access Far settings.
But, as far as I can see, viewer settings are marked as private currently.
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Access FAR settings from plugin

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You are right, I found it in config.cpp... :(
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