Font remembering

Hey,
Is there a way that i can have my program remember the font, size and style. that the user selects.

I am using the FontDialog How would i go about setting the font so that each time the program loads it uses the font propertys the user selected that last time they used it.

Thanks

Save those properties in reg key or any simple file and restor them when loading your prog.

Could you serialize the Control to XML and just Deserialize it to get your settings when the app loads?

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Originally posted by VBCrazyCoder
Could you serialize the Control to XML and just Deserialize it to get your settings when the app loads?

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Yeah , I think this ideal . but what I was talking about is that he can save font.tostring in a file then import it and convert it into font object .

Dim y As FontFamily

"i have a textbox and the line 2nd line has the name of the font to be used.

Dim test
test = txtfontprop.Lines(1)
y = test

txtLyrics.Font = New System.Drawing.Font(y, 25.0!, FontStyle.Regular)

this doens't work do you know how i can get this to work?

or could you provide a sample ?

Thanks

Try this :

VB Code:

Save "fntstr"  this to file 
Dim fntstr As String =TextBox.Font.ToString()
 
 
 
'get the font string from the file and do some conversions like this
Dim fnt As New FontConverter()
Dim fntobj As Font = Nothing
 
fntobj = fnt.ConvertFromString(fntstr)
 
'assign the font to the control
TextBox1.Font = fntobj

I get this error Size=14.25 is not valid value for units
the size doesn't matter it does it on any size


thanks alot

VB Code:

Save "fntstr"  this to file 
    Dim fntstr As String
        Dim fnt As New FontConverter()
        fntstr = fnt.ConvertToString(txtLyrics.Font)
 
 
 
'get the font string from the file and do some conversions like this
Dim fnt As New FontConverter()
Dim fntobj As Font = Nothing
 
fntobj = fnt.ConvertFromString(fntstr)
 
'assign the font to the control
TextBox1.Font = fntobj

This seems to work... Thanks alot for your help !

Glad you got it working .:)