Saving user prefernces ( slider . check boxes... )

[Dan DeConinck]

Hello,

I want to save the position of all the controls on my form. I would like to
write them out to a preference file.

I have done this in DOS BASIC like this:

TO WRITE the preference
open "c:\preferences .txt" for input as #1
input #1 ,a,b,c
close #1

TO READ the preferences
open "c:\preferences .txt" for output as #1
write #1,a,b,c
c lose #1

What are the VB.NET commands to do this ?
Thanks
Dan

[One Handed Man [ OHM# ]]

Hi try This,

Dim c As Control
Dim sw As StreamWriter = File.CreateText ("C:\PREF.TX T")

For Each c In Me.Controls
sw.WriteLine(c. Name & ":" & c.Location.ToSt ring())
Next

sw.Close()

Produces something like this.

Button1:{X=56,Y =56}
RadioButton1:{X =176,Y=240}
CheckBox1:{X=88 ,Y=184}
TextBox1:{X=72, Y=128}

Regards - OHM

Dan DeConinck wrote:

Hello,

I want to save the position of all the controls on my form. I would
like to write them out to a preference file.

I have done this in DOS BASIC like this:

TO WRITE the preference
open "c:\preferences .txt" for input as #1
input #1 ,a,b,c
close #1

TO READ the preferences
open "c:\preferences .txt" for output as #1
write #1,a,b,c
c lose #1

What are the VB.NET commands to do this ?
Thanks
Dan

--
Best Regards - OHM

O_H_M{at}BTInte rnet{dot}com

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...et02122002.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...et07082003.asp

Ken
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"Dan DeConinck" <pi********@sym patico.ca> wrote in message
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Hello,

I want to save the position of all the controls on my form. I would like
to
write them out to a preference file.

I have done this in DOS BASIC like this:

TO WRITE the preference
open "c:\preferences .txt" for input as #1
input #1 ,a,b,c
close #1

TO READ the preferences
open "c:\preferences .txt" for output as #1
write #1,a,b,c
c lose #1

What are the VB.NET commands to do this ?
Thanks
Dan

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "One Handed Man [ OHM# ]" <O_H_M{at}BTInt ernet{dot}com> scripsit:

Produces something like this.

Button1:{X=56,Y =56}
RadioButton1:{X =176,Y=240}
CheckBox1:{X=88 ,Y=184}
TextBox1:{X=72, Y=128}

And how to read this data?

;-)

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[One Handed Man [ OHM# ]]

Your such a smart*ss sometimes Herfreid, this is just an example, he can CSV
it or something

:)

OHM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] wrote:

* "One Handed Man [ OHM# ]" <O_H_M{at}BTInt ernet{dot}com> scripsit:

Produces something like this.

Button1:{X=56,Y =56}
RadioButton1:{X =176,Y=240}
CheckBox1:{X=88 ,Y=184}
TextBox1:{X=72, Y=128}

And how to read this data?

;-)

--
Best Regards - OHM

O_H_M{at}BTInte rnet{dot}com

[Cor]

Hi OHM,

There was I time that I had fun prickling Herfried with that kind of answers
he did do to you. I stopped with it, I thought in the time of the Fergus <->
Herfried battle.

What do you think if I start it again a while and then we do it together
(Armin does it still sometimes)?

Cor

[One Handed Man [ OHM# ]]

OK, why not, its about time that someone did this :), but dont tell anyone
as I dont want them to know OK!

:)

Regards - OHM

Cor wrote:

Hi OHM,

There was I time that I had fun prickling Herfried with that kind of
answers he did do to you. I stopped with it, I thought in the time of
the Fergus <-> Herfried battle.

What do you think if I start it again a while and then we do it
together (Armin does it still sometimes)?

Cor

--
Best Regards - OHM

O_H_M{at}BTInte rnet{dot}com

[Keith R]

With some embarrasement, I have to admit I was thinking of asking the same
question, but not with any smartss tendency :-) so let me phrase it a
little differently...

I'm still kinda new to programming, and I am designing a new CF project
where I want to add standard controls at runtime, using some type of file
to store the control(s) names, types, location, content (comboboxes,
textboxes), state (radiobuttons, checkboxes), etc.

Users may edit these through my program, so when the program closes, I'll
probably update the file if needed.

The OP asked (more specifically) about writing a preference file; is this
the best approach for storing and uploading control info to be used at
runtime, or are there better built-in functions that I don't know about? Or
are there other (easier) ways to do the same, including possibly saving an
XML file with the same information? I assume I would be looking at the
form.load area of the program to open the file and pull in the information,
and use it to create the controls...

Even giving me an idea of where to look in the VS helpfile (VB.net) would
be great, I simply don't know enough yet to "know what I don't know"

Humbly,
Keith
One Handed Man [ OHM# ] <O_H_M{at}BTInt ernet{dot}com> wrote in article
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Your such a smart*ss sometimes Herfreid, this is just an example, he can CSV it or something

:)

OHM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] wrote:

* "One Handed Man [ OHM# ]" <O_H_M{at}BTInt ernet{dot}com> scripsit:

Produces something like this.

Button1:{X=56,Y =56}
RadioButton1:{X =176,Y=240}
CheckBox1:{X=88 ,Y=184}
TextBox1:{X=72, Y=128}

And how to read this data?

;-)

--
Best Regards - OHM

O_H_M{at}BTInte rnet{dot}com

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "One Handed Man [ OHM# ]" <O_H_M{at}BTInt ernet{dot}com> scripsit:

Your such a smart*ss sometimes Herfreid, this is just an example, he can CSV
it or something

I included a ";-)".

;-)

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Cor]

Hi Keith,

I was also looking at this question but the OP did ask it in a very
specific way, which I did not know how to give an answer on but OHM did.

I saw that Herfried had also a question about this, but I think there is a
better approach.

If that does not answer the question from Herfried I will look if I can help
him with his problem how to read such a file.

To give you a more direct answer, the most simple way to save this settings
is in the registry or in an XML file.

Although it looks difficult a dataset is very simple to make (I did give a
lot of samples the last days with it in this newsgroup but if you need it I
can do it again).

That dataset you can easely writen with mydatset.writex ml(mypath) and read
with mydataset.readx ml(mypath)

If hope this helps, and if not feel free to ask?

Cor