Save last font ?

[birthjay]

Hello,

I am using the streamWriter/streamReader to save my last settings to a text file and then load from the text file on startup. How do I save the last font settings and recall them from the text file?

I am doing this (below) to save the font info:

sw.WriteLine(myFont.ToString());

...but I am not sure if this is what I should be doing OR how to load it back in as my font using the streamReader.

Thanks!

[jmcilhinney]

Are you using VS 2005? If so then don't use a text file. Use the in-built application settings functionality. Also, please specify your version when creating a thread. You must have seen the radio buttons created expressly for that purpose by now.

[birthjay]

Thanks. I am using Visual Studio.NET 2003....and no...I did not notice the version radio buttons. None of the ones I saw said 2005 or 2003.... but I see what you mean (I think).

I don't have the settings option in 2003. While searching for a solution to this I did see that 2005 has that feature....which is very nice. But....since I do not have that option...what do you suggest?

Thanks!

[birthjay]

Hello again...

When I load my application, I am setting "myFont" to:

myFont = new Font("NATURALBORN" , 14 , FontStyle.Bold);

Now what I would like to do is "read" my font from a text file. Something like this:

The text saved to my text file (myFont.ToString()) = ...

[Font: Name=NATURALBORN, Size=14, Units=3, GdiCharSet=1, GdiVerticalFont=False]

So I need to do something like...

myFont = new Font(sr.readLine());

Obviously, that will not work unless I parse it out some how. How?

Thanks!