Saving layout state to existing xml config file

Posted 20 years ago by Adamczak - Developer, AAA Software Enterprises

Is there a way to add functionality that allows me to save the dock layout state to an existing xml file? I already have a config file where I save other preference data for the gui, and I'd like to put the layout state into the same file. So a function like SaveToolWindowLayoutToFile but one that takes an xml element as the root to save state to.

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Posted 20 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

The way our XML serializer works is that it reads from an XmlTextReader and writes to an XmlTextWriter. Would exposing methods that accept those as parameters help?

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Posted 20 years ago by Adamczak - Developer, AAA Software Enterprises

The way my gui config code works is it has non-sequential access to the state (an XmlDocument), so a reader and writer will probably not work for me. I will just update my config support to save the dock layout in a parallel file that matches my config file name.

Posted 20 years ago by Adamczak - Developer, AAA Software Enterprises

Actually, exposing methods for the xnk reader and xml writer would work for me. I could just create a string writer and write out the doc to a string, bring it into an XmlDocument and move the nodes over. I could do the same thing when reading. So yes, please expose those two methods. Thanks

Posted 20 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Have you see our ToolWindowLayoutData property? It's another way to get/set the layout data.

That gets/sets an XmlDocument object. Could you get your node data from that?

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Posted 20 years ago by Adamczak - Developer, AAA Software Enterprises

That will work, thanks!

The latest build of this product (v24.1.1) was released 28 days ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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