About Registry Commands

Terminology

The most confusing thing is the use of the term "value". In Tcl, the value is the contents of a variable. In the Windows Registry, the value is the variable. So in Tcl we would say we have a variable abc with value 123. With the Windows Registry, we would say we have a value with name abc and data 123.

We hope the table below will help you get the terminology straight.

TclWindows Registry
VariableValue
Variable NameValue Name
Variable ValueValue Data
DictKey/Tree
Dict KeySubkey or Value Name
Dict ValueSubtree or Value Data
Nested DictSubkey/Subtree