Font remembering

[Stick]

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

[Pirate]

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

[VBCrazyCoder]

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

[Pirate]

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

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 .

[Stick]

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

[Pirate]

Try this :

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

[Stick]

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

[Stick]

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 !

[Pirate]

Glad you got it working .