SaveState and themes

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   Hi, I was going to save the panes settings with this method, but it doesn't save any color/theme settings. Is this by design? If yes, it would be very practical to be able to save the theme/color/tab manager etc. settings too so I could offer the user the possibility to customize the whole GUI.

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castleJoe Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 16 August 2004 Status: Offline Points: 30	Post Options Post Reply Quote castleJoe Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: SaveState and themes Posted: 14 October 2004 at 12:48pm
	Hi, I was going to save the panes settings with this method, but it doesn't save any color/theme settings. Is this by design? If yes, it would be very practical to be able to save the theme/color/tab manager etc. settings too so I could offer the user the possibility to customize the whole GUI.

Boyd Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 08 December 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 285	Post Options Post Reply Quote Boyd Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 14 October 2004 at 8:51pm
	While the 'SaveState' method doesn't do this, you can still offer the ability for the user to customize it. I have a PropertyGrid control in a General Options dialog that offers a drop-down list of themes for CommandBars, DockingPanes, and PropertyGrid. I have to save and restore these settings myself, but it still gives the user the option of customizing. Just thought I'd throw that out there...

castleJoe Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 16 August 2004 Status: Offline Points: 30	Post Options Post Reply Quote castleJoe Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 15 October 2004 at 3:54am
	Thanks Boyd. I was looking for SaveState on the TabPaintManager, but as you say - have to do it manually... You don't have your serializer reusable and would share it ;) ? (I was thinking using the frmProperties++ from the TabManager sample to allow changing appearance)

Boyd Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 08 December 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 285	Post Options Post Reply Quote Boyd Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 15 October 2004 at 7:50am
	If I had something easy to share, I would. I didn't serialize anything. I just stored each of the individual settings in the registry and then restored the settings when my application was loaded.