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[Niphyr]

what is the command to save settings to your app, such as whether or not a value is true or false. i think it is something like the subject heading but cant seem to get it to work

 

[johnwm]

Look up the SaveSetting function in VBHelp

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[CubeE101]

Never used it before... but...

It appears that you use it like so:

if you have a program named MyProgram with a checkbox (Check1) value that you want to save...

you would say:

SaveSetting "MyProgram", "StartUp", "Check1", Check1.Value

Then to restore the value you could put this in the Form_Load section...

Check1.Value = GetSetting("MyProgram", "StartUp", "Check1", True)

Note the last argument (True) will set the default of the checkbox to True if the Key does not exist in the registery...

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[wraygun]

This is the coolest thing I think I've ever seen. Okay maybe not, but worth a star. Enjoy fellows.

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[johnwm]

Thanks Wraygun!

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[CubeE101]

Yeah,

Thanks for the star, Wraygun!

And thanks for asking, Niphyr...

I had been wondering how to do that myself ;-)

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[Niphyr]

Thanks people, works great

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[LPlates]

Registry

 

[CCLINT]

They are saved to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings

and for the example
SaveSetting "MyProgram", "StartUp", "Check1", Check1.Value
by CubeE101:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\MyProgram\StartUp\Check1

What many do not realize, is that you can also branch this out even further:

SaveSetting "MyProgram\Version\6\Build\6951", "StartUp\Type1\ControlName", "Check1", Check1.Value

will store the value in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\MyProgram\Version\6\Build\6951\StartUp\Type1\ControlName

 

[AndyWatt]

Now I didn't know that. Have a star CCLINT

Andy
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[CCLINT]

Thank you AndyWatt

 

[Sideman]

WHOA!!! TOO COOL!!!

I, too, have wanted to do just such a thing, but thought it would be over my head at present. (i'm still learning to swim in this VB sea of knowledge)

Ahhh, the learning in this forum is amazing!!! and oh so thrilling!

Thanks again, CCLINT.


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