How to make an Image Web Scraper, Tutorial FPC Lazarus Pt. 11 Fix Bug and Create-Read ini File

Part 11 - D'oh! In the last video (part 10), I messed up a couple lines in a function which I quickly corrected in the beginning of this video tutorial.

Then we move on to creating the code for using an .ini file which would be used to save configurations for your application.

In this case, we are using it to store the last location where we saved an image. So after saving an image to a specific folder, and the next time we open the save dialog again to save, the same location should be opened in the save file dialog.

This is because after you save the image, it writes the path info to the .ini file and stores it under category 'Main', with an identifier (or variable) called 'CurrentPath' with a value of the path to your last saved image.

When saving again (or at application start) the App will read the .ini file and get the image path value and store it into the global lastSavedDir variable.

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I'll show you that web scraping is not just for Python, Javascript, PHP etc. And unlike those scripting languages, we can build a native executable file that can be cross-compiled for many different platforms including Windows, MacOS, and Linux straight from your own OS.

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