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TweakUI-Like Interface Question

I would like to develop an application with an interface similar
to the 'Powertoys for Windows XP' TweakUI program with a tree view
control on the left where the user can select a node and a "form"
of controls appears to the right of the tree view.

What I want to know is what is displayed on the right? Is it
another form? Is it a Panel control? Are there any VB.net code
samples or walkthroughs that I could look at for this interface?

Also, where does TweakUI store the user selected settings
between sessions?

Thanks for your help.

Randy
Nov 21 '05 #1
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I haven't found any samples but I would imagine you could get the same effect
from displaying/hiding group boxes when a tree view node is clicked.

I would imaging that the setting are read/updated in the registry. I think
all that TweakUI does is modify existing registry entries and therefore
doesn't need to store the settings anywhere else.

"Randy Cox" wrote:
I would like to develop an application with an interface similar
to the 'Powertoys for Windows XP' TweakUI program with a tree view
control on the left where the user can select a node and a "form"
of controls appears to the right of the tree view.

What I want to know is what is displayed on the right? Is it
another form? Is it a Panel control? Are there any VB.net code
samples or walkthroughs that I could look at for this interface?

Also, where does TweakUI store the user selected settings
between sessions?

Thanks for your help.

Randy

Nov 21 '05 #2
You might want to check out this alternate method of persisting objects.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...tingobject.asp
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I would like to develop an application with an interface similar
to the 'Powertoys for Windows XP' TweakUI program with a tree view
control on the left where the user can select a node and a "form"
of controls appears to the right of the tree view.

What I want to know is what is displayed on the right? Is it
another form? Is it a Panel control? Are there any VB.net code
samples or walkthroughs that I could look at for this interface?

Also, where does TweakUI store the user selected settings
between sessions?

Thanks for your help.

Randy

Nov 21 '05 #3

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