These preferences exist to support using IDL runtime and the IDL Virtual Machine under Microsoft Windows. They are not present in non-Windows versions of IDL.o
Under Microsoft Windows, the idlrt.exe program runs runtime or virtual-machine applications. The preferences described here provide default values for parameters to that program if they are not explicitly provided.
If IDL finds an IDL preference file named idl.pref in the directory containing the IDL DLL, IDL treats it as a command-line preference file and automatically reads and processes it. This is the most likely way in which the preferences specified in this section are used.
IDL_WINRT_FILE
If you run idlrt.exe without specifying an IDL SAVE file, the IDL_WINRT_FILE preference supplies the name of the file to use.
Committed changes take effect at the next idlrt.exe invocation. The default value is an empty string ('').
IDL_WINRT_FILE_TYPE
If you run idlrt.exe without specifying the licensing mode under which it is expected to run, the IDL_WINRT_FILE_TYPE preference supplies the mode.
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Value |
Alias |
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0 |
Runtime |
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1 |
EmbeddedRuntime |
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2 |
VirtualMachine |
Committed changes take effect at the next idlrt.exe invocation. The default value is Runtime (0).
IDL_WINRT_ICON
The IDL_WINRT_ICON preference specifies the file containing the icon to use with a runtime or virtual-machine application.
Committed changes take effect at the next idlrt.exe invocation. The default value is an empty string (''), indicating that the standard IDL icon should be used.