Where are the colors from Tools/Options/Color Tab stored?

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Where are the colors from Tools/Options/Color Tab stored?

2021-03-01 10:37 am

Hello,
Via 'Tools/Options/Color Tab' you can change the colors. But I wonder: where are the stored?
I have written some tools where one can set the color of an object or staff, but I can't show the exact color next to the names ('Highlight 1', ...) in the dialog box.
If I knew where I could find the color values from the Tool/Options, I could present a more user friendly dialog box.

Re: Where are the colors from Tools/Options/Color Tab stored?

Reply #1 – 2021-03-01 10:53 am

They're in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\NoteWorthy Software\NoteWorthy Composer 2\StaffColors

Re: Where are the colors from Tools/Options/Color Tab stored?

Reply #2 – 2021-03-01 11:54 am

Quote from: Opagust – 2021-03-01 11:41 am

Thanks Lawrie, but I don't find a sub directory 'Software'.
I have version 2.8 Beta 1 of NWC and Windows 10, if that's important.

It's not a folder, it's a registry key. You can manually check it out with "regedit" (part of windoze), but I have no idea how to extract data programatically. Can't be too hard as pretty much every application written for windoze uses the registry.

Re: Where are the colors from Tools/Options/Color Tab stored?

Reply #3 – 2021-03-01 11:58 am

OK, thanks.
Now I just have to find out how to access the registry information in a user tool...

Re: Where are the colors from Tools/Options/Color Tab stored?

Reply #4 – 2021-03-01 01:19 pm

Don't know if these will be helpful:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sysinfo/retrieving-data-from-the-registry

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34065/how-to-read-a-value-from-the-windows-registry

Re: Where are the colors from Tools/Options/Color Tab stored?

Reply #5 – 2021-03-01 02:21 pm

THANKS!