New commands lose keyboard shortcut when LoadBarLayoutFromFile is called

Hi Simon,

Yes a "complete" bar layout load will wipe out all existing commands and layout data since it is intended to be a total refresh of the layout. 

Have you tried passing "false" to the "isComplete" parameter of your SaveBarLayoutToFile?  That's the mode that is intended for apps to use at run-time in general.  When a non-complete layout is loaded, commands aren't touched.  The complete layout is more for backup purposes, such as you need to do a complete layout reset to defaults.

Hi

SaveBarLayoutToFile is always called with isComplete set to false (should I call be calling it with true the first time?), but it always clears any shortcuts associated with commands that are new (i.e. not in the previously seen in the saved layout info).

Hi Somon,

Ok I think I see what's happening here.  When you load a differential layout (and you do want a differential layout for application run-time save/load in general), it's running through all commands, resetting them back to their default keyboard shortcuts, and then going through the list of commands in the bar layout data that say to add/remove commands differential to those default keyboard shortcuts.  For new commands, it should be doing the reset to defaults but shouldn't be touching them afterwards.

The default keyboard shortcuts should be saved over from the KeyboardShortcuts collection for each known command when the designer initialization ends.  As long as you load your differential layout after that point, I would think that the default keyboard shortcuts for the new command would be held in place.

If you could make a new simple sample project that shows this issue and email it over to our support address, we will debug it and see what's happening to cause the problem.  Please reference this thread in your email and rename the .zip file extension of the attachment so it doesn't get spam blocked.