Remembering custom colors with common dialog?

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Jun 25th, 2002, 02:30 PM
brenaaro

Remembering custom colors with common dialog?

How can I get the Common Dialog control to remember custom colors that my user has defined?

After the user selects a color save it to the registry. Then read the registry when the commondialog is loaded next time:
VB Code:
Sub GetColor
Dim iColor As Long
 
iColor = GetSetting(App.Title,"Colors","Hair color",vbBlack)
 
CommonDialog.Color = iColor
CommonDialog.ShowColor
 
SaveSetting (App.Title, "Colors", "Hair color", CommonDialog.Color

Jun 25th, 2002, 08:11 PM
James Stanich

Well

You could achieve the same with a textfile...

Question: If using Registry, and not Admin on system in say NT or Win2000, will application crap out on you?
Jun 25th, 2002, 08:13 PM
cafeenman

Re: Well

Quote:

Originally posted by James Stanich

Question: If using Registry, and not Admin on system in say NT or Win2000, will application crap out on you?

No. All my apps use the registry and many are on NT and 2000 being used by people without admin privileges. It's never been a problem.
Jun 25th, 2002, 08:20 PM
James Stanich

Well

Thats good to know. Someone else said it wouldn't make a difference, but it's always good to get a second opinion. ;)
Jun 25th, 2002, 08:30 PM
MidgetsBro

Re: Well

Quote:

Originally posted by James Stanich
You could achieve the same with a textfile...

Question: If using Registry, and not Admin on system in say NT or Win2000, will application crap out on you?

It will only crap out on you if the admin specifically set it to not allow any registry access. My teacher did that last semester, but then none of the regular programs that we used would work because they couldn't write to the registry. He learned that he was just gonna have to let us have access to the registry and just disable regedit.
Jun 25th, 2002, 08:33 PM
brenaaro

Okay, I know how to save which color my user has chosen (I do use registry), but the thing is he (my boss btw :( ) wants to be able to define a set of custom colors in the dialogue, and then the next time he loads the program, have all of his custom colors there. Is there a way to do it by API or something?