HINIFILE Data Type

The handle for an open INI file. A file handle provides you with a means to identify, and therefore to access, a specific file. A INI file is an initialization file. Silk Test Classic stores test attributes and their values in the initialization file called testplan.ini. The IniFileOpen function returns an HINIFILE that you can then pass to such functions as IniFileSetValue to identify the initialization file in which to set a value. 4Test defines this alias data type as follows:
type HINIFILE is HANDLE