topic Re: How to find ARCHICAD on a computer? in Archicad C++ API

How to find ARCHICAD on a computer?

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 07:47:48 GMT

Hi, everyone.

I found something confusing that there is multiple regsitry information about ARCHICAD in Registery Editor. I have installed ARCHICAD 21, 22, 23, 24. However, they are under different registry folders.

I can find ARCHICAD 22, 23, 24 under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/GRAPHISOFT SE. Where is ARCHICAD 21? I found there is something about 21 under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/GRAPHISOFT/ARCHICAD_64 named ARCHICAD-64 21.0.0 INT R1.

Is it because something went wrong in my computer? I want to know if it is common that registry information in there places. Where's your registry information about ARCHICAD？

Thanks in advance.

Re: How to find ARCHICAD on a computer?

Ralph Wessel — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 10:24:19 GMT

Do you want to discover different installations on the computer, or just the version an add-on is actively running in?

Re: How to find ARCHICAD on a computer?

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 05:51:24 GMT

Ralph wrote:
Do you want to discover different installations on the computer, or just the version an add-on is actively running in?

I want to find the dfferent installations.

Re: How to find ARCHICAD on a computer?

SeRohde — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 08:16:21 GMT

I checked on a machine with similar installs (except AC24) and found the same structure in the registry.

Is it because something went wrong in my computer?

I want to know if it is common that registry information in there places.

Yes it is, as far as I can tell

Re: How to find ARCHICAD on a computer?

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 08:48:54 GMT

SeRohde wrote:
I checked on a machine with similar installs (except AC24) and found the same structure in the registry.
Is it because something went wrong in my computer?
No
I want to know if it is common that registry information in there places.
Yes it is, as far as I can tell

Thank you. Could you please help me with this problem: where is the ARCHICAD installation with a language except for English?

Re: How to find ARCHICAD on a computer?

Barry Kelly — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:02:01 GMT

scandi wrote:
Thank you. Could you please help me with this problem: where is the ARCHICAD installation with a language except for English?

It seems like you will find all of them in the HKEY_CURRENT_USERS section.

Barry.

Re: How to find ARCHICAD on a computer?

Ralph Wessel — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:04:47 GMT

We search the children of "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GRAPHISOFT\ArchiCAD-64" and "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GRAPHISOFT\ArchiCAD" to find all installations. I would be interested to know if that isn't true in your case.

BTW - we need to confirm that the installation actually exists too. Entries for deleted versions seem to hang around sometimes

Re: How to find ARCHICAD on a computer?

Barry Kelly — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:24:51 GMT

Ralph wrote:
Entries for deleted versions seem to hang around sometimes

They sure do.
It looks like I've got some registry cleaning to do!

Barry.

Re: How to find ARCHICAD on a computer?

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 10:03:35 GMT

Thank you!

I find them all under the GRAPHISOFT/ARCHICAD and GRAPHISOFT/ARCHICAD-64.