Reading and Writing to Ini Files

JF2015 is definitely on the right track.

Use full path for your ini file. The way you do it now, probably means it ended up in the windows directory.

Update:

TIniFile *StartUp = new TIniFile("c:\\path\\to\\inifile\\privs.ini");

// get value or default if not found
Left = StartUp->ReadInteger("FormPos", "Left", 250); 
Top = StartUp->ReadInteger("FormPos", "Top", 200);

// Write to the ini file
StartUp->WriteInteger("FormPos", "Top", Top); 
StartUp->WriteInteger("FormPos", "Left", Left);

// Flush changes
StartUp->UpdateFile()

Call UpdateFile to flush buffered reads from and writes to the INI file to disk. UpdateFile is useful under Windows9x, but has no effect under Windows NT because NT does not buffer INI file reads and writes.

This version of UpdateFile is only available if the application is compiled for Windows

Regards
Espen Harlinn

Hope INI FILES[^] will give you an idea.

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The use oif INI files has long been deprecated and is no longer considered best practice. Try this Codeproject article - it utilizes xml data files to save settings:

XML Application Profile Class[^]

I don't see you create a file anywhere in that code. You make a new class object with argument "privs.ini", but it's up to the constructor of that class what to do with it.

Could you please post the constructor function here?

Espen : I'll try this tomorrow