PrfCloseProfile

Call this function when you are done with a profile you have created with PrfOpenProfile. The Handle to an Initialization file (HINI) you pass to PrfCloseProfile will be then be invalid, and should not be used for any further API calls.

Syntax

PrfCloseProfile ( hini )

Parameters

HINI hini (input)

Handle to an initialization file to close. This is any valid handle returned by PrfOpenProfile(). Passing HINI_PROFILE, HINI_USERPROFILE, or HINI_SYSTEMPROFILE is not permitted.

Returns

BOOL bRC

This return value is always either:

TRUE success

FALSE Error occurred

If FALSE, you may use WinGetLastError() to find out what went wrong. Possible errors PrfCloseProfile() may incur:

PMERR_INI_FILE_IS_SYS_OR_USER	0x1124	HINI_PROFILE, HINI_USER, HINI_USERPROFILE, HINI_SYSTEM, or HINI_SYSTEMPROFILE was specified. These profiles may not be closed by an application.
PMERR_INVALID_INI_FILE_HANDLE	0x1115	An invalid HINI was specified.

Include Info

#define INCL_WINSHELLDATA

or

#define INCL_WIN

or

#define INCL_PM
#include <os2.h>

Gotchas

Don't pass the system or user profile handles to this function. They are opened initially by the operating system, and can't be closed by an application.

Sample Code

/*
 * Assume for the sake of this example that there exists two functions,
 *   one named RestOfProgram(), which will contain everything after we
 *   get the profile opened, and WhineAboutErrors(), which displays an
 *   error message, and terminates the program.
 */

#define INCL_WIN
#include <os2.h>

int main(void)
{
    HAB hab;
    HINI hiniMyProfile;

    hab = WinInitialize(0);
    hiniMyProfile = PrfOpenProfile(hab, "MYPROF.INI");

    if (hiniMyProfile != NULLHANDLE)
        RestOfProgram(hiniMyProfile);
    else
        WhineAboutErrors("Couldn't open profile.");

    /* After RestOfProgram() returns, close the profile we are done with. */

    if (PrfCloseProfile(hiniMyProfile) == FALSE)
        WhineAboutErrors("Couldn't close profile.");

    return(0);
} /* main */