Steve I have been contemplating adding a dialog to allow setting colors for the interface and saving them to a XaReg registry key. It is not difficult to make and some preset themes would also be easily included.
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Steve I have been contemplating adding a dialog to allow setting colors for the interface and saving them to a XaReg registry key. It is not difficult to make and some preset themes would also be easily included.
Rik's drawing would make a nice new logo for XaReg.
It would Frances. Although it is not the only Utility for Xara. There is XPal, XXfx, Spray, XColor, and others. :)
Maybe you and Rik could work out a new tag line (provided of course that Rik is willing)
Does anyone know of any registry settings that have been posted in the past year that are not already in the last update to XaReg?
I have found three but have run out of ideas about how to search for more.
Luke.Hart, PhilM, and KMario each posted one and I have documented them for the next update.
Bill,
Congrats on retirement! May it be long and fulfilling.
C#. Ugh. I started with VB back well before there was a V in it. Back when it was fun. Actually, probably the only real downside to C# is that it's not VB. Familiarity...
I think your UI works pretty well for XaReg. One thought is that displaying the registry path being edited might be interesting. Perhaps in the status bar.
Another useful item might be more help on what each setting does. Even an external reference, possibly with links to talkgraphics posts where the setting was discussed.
FYI, I just opened XaReg on got the following error dialog. I really don't change many settings so I'm not sure what I may have done. It displays when you click on either XtremePro 6.1 or 7.1. Resetting to defaults didn't cure it.
Anyway, happy coding...
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Thanks Steven. I may continue with VB because of all the existing code. C# does not seem to have advantages over VB at least not for this type of application. I have written a few UIs in C# to take advantage of some C# routines written by co-workers but that was a few years and versions back.
A Help file has been in the planning stages for XaReg, awaiting time for me to work on it. Now that my fun work is my day job it may actually see the light of day. ;)
Finding TG threads where some of the settings were discussed would be impossible as some of them were not discussed online.
About that error message, you can download a version newer than the one you have. In my signature click on the Last XaReg Update link. I believe it was back in 2010 but it is newer than your 1.4 version.
Derek - Try the attached.
I think you already have the spacebar - last tool used toggle option.
The galleries naming thing, which you said cannot be changed.
And my current version shows an error message when I start it up. Not seeing that would be nice.
I'm sorry to hear about your day job unless you tell me you have a better job and were able to tell your previous employer to shove it. :)
And I am glad to hear you are updating XaReg.
Maybe Frances can do a real ad campaign to squeeze a few dollars out of the Xara users.
Thanks Gary.
I'm retired now so I did tell my last employer to shove it. :D My retirement went into effect the 24th of February and my health has improved immensely, well truthfully it has improved some in only a week.
Gary you are still running version 1.4 of XaReg. Update to the version in the link in my signature and the error message will go away.
Bill,
Don't know if you're still planning an upgrade, but here is one more minor suggestion. Consider changing references to "blobs" in the app to the word "handles". I'm not sure why they're called blobs unless it means Binary Large OBjectS, which still doesn't make sense to me. Is there a reason? But I notice that the Xara Help files use the word Handles, which makes more sense, IMO.
As an aside, I recently found a small and useful C# class that facilitates registry I/O. Google "c# read registry" if interested. That is unless you're going to write your own from scratch or stick with VB.
Regards,
Steven