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SaveState and themes

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Topic: SaveState and themes

Posted By: castleJoe
Subject: SaveState and themes
Date 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.

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Posted By: Boyd
Date 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...

Posted By: castleJoe
Date 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)

Posted By: Boyd
Date 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.