Re: Got a nagging listbox questions

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From: Armin Zingler (az.nospam_at_freenet.de)
Date: 05/01/04 

Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 02:01:50 +0200

"bobby j" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb
> I have tried everything I know, looked every where, and I still
> cannot figure out this: You see, I have a color stored in the
> registry and it shows up as say Color [red] and I cannot get that
> color out as Color.Red so that I can put it in a variable to be
> assigned to a label.backcolor The registry getvalue code I use is as
> folllows:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

----
> PanelColors = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("My
> App")
>
>         Dim nameColor = PanelColors.GetValue("My App")
>
> Label1.BackColor= nameColor
You should enable Option Strict first.
- The variable type is missing
- The type cast is missing
- You are trying to assign a String to a property expecting a Color object
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------
> I get an error message saying "Specified cast is not valid"
You are storing the wrong string. The string is not parsable. You could use
System.Drawing.Color.ToKnownColor.ToString to convert a color object to a
string to store it in the registry, then use System.Drawing.Color.FromName
to convert it back from String to a Color object. Example:
    Dim s As String
    s = Color.Red.ToKnownColor.ToString
    MsgBox(s)
    s = "Blue"
    Me.BackColor = Color.FromName(s)
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