Saving background color VB 2008

desertavataraz

I am trying to save the background color of my main textbox so that if a user changes it, those changes will be automatically save and retreived when the user re-opens the application. The code builds fine, but throws and error, saying "specified cast is not valid". It appears that the registry only accepts string values, but attempting to convert to a string has the problem of getting it back to a color value. So far nothing I have tried has worked. . . . This is VB 2008 . . . .

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Dim bColor As Color

Try

bColor = Me.RichTextBox1.BackColor
 
My.Computer.Registry.SetValue("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ASM\CanvasColor", "bColor", bColor)
 
bColor = My.Computer.Registry.GetValue("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ASM\CanvasColor", "bColor", Color.LightGray)
 
Me.RichTextBox1.BackColor = bColor

Catch ex As Exception

MsgBox(ex.Message & "  $%#&*!!!!")

End Try

PRR

Assuming that you have a valid string color in your string

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string color = "blue";

that you read from registry or maybe xml file or database you can use

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button1.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.FromName(color.Trim());

You cant assign a string as background.. You need Color type...

desertavataraz

This is Visual Basic 2008, not C++, no "Trim" function is available for
color . . . .

The following is the solution to the problem . . .

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             'Save color to registry

            Dim bColor As Color = Me.RichTextBox1.BackColor

            My.Computer.Registry.SetValue(regPath, "bColor", bColor.ToArgb())
 
            ' Retrieve color from registry

            bColor = Color.FromArgb(My.Computer.Registry.GetValue_

                              (regPath, "bColor", Color.LightGray))

            Me.RichTextBox1.BackColor = bColor

Saving background color VB 2008

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