How to restore editor syntax settings? - Spider Writer Suggestions and Support Forum

The latest build of this product (v5.2.0) was released 23 years ago, which was before this thread was created.

Posted 22 years ago by Galley - Greenville, SC

I recently had a Windows reinstall go very awry and ended up having no other choice but to format and then reinstall. I backed up the "Config", "Data" and "Snippets" folders, and all of that works fine. I lost my syntax color settings and my custom color palette, however. Where are these settings kept, so that I may back those up as well in the future?
Luckily I had kept a record of my color settings in a spreadsheet, and my colors were stored in a 3rd-party color picker, AI-Color, but I will still have to change them manually. <IMG SRC="frown.gif" border="0">

"I'm not a cool person in real life, but I play one on the Internet". Galley

Comments (2)

Posted 22 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

The custom colors for the color dialog are stored in the registry. The color settings for parsers is stored in the .PAR files in the Parsers sub-folder. For your backups, add that sub-folder to your list of backup folders, as well as SpellChk (if you have custom spell checking words) and Template if you have custom templates.

Actipro Software Support

Posted 22 years ago by Galley - Greenville, SC

Thanks for the info. Personally, I hate the registry. I'd rather have the custom color pallette saved in an .ini file like AI SmartColor does. Here's an example:

[SavedColors]
nColors=39
Color0=8DD907
Color1=3980F4
Color2=FF7419
Color3=1A50B8
Color4=FFD314
Color5=5A7DDE
Color6=325DFA
Color7=FFEC7C
Color8=FFA57B
Color9=FF7B90
Color10=7B90FF
Color11=7F4FAF
Color12=663387

"I'm not a cool person in real life, but I play one on the Internet". Galley