Toolbars registry settings in wrong place

jvierra · Post by **jvierra** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:00 am

On all new 2009 products please note that all of teh toolbars are being loaded into teh root of teh HKCU registry hive.

BCGPBaseControlBar-156

Each product adds it's toolbar settings and adds a unique number at teh end of the name.

This is not within WIondows UI and registry usage guidlines and cause various registry tools to complain about no product match.

Al products should be listed under HKCUSoftware<vendor name>

This prevents namespace collisions and reduces the huge amount of clutter created at the root of the hive.

Notice the BCGP settings. These are all from the various Sapien products.

I know it may take a bit to fix this as it is a pretty nasty goof but it migh also explain some other erros down the road as other bits of code will not look in root by default.

Good luck on this one.

Post by **Alexander Riedel** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:07 am

Thanks! We are checking right now.

Post by **Alexander Riedel** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:52 am

It is only PrimalPad that does that. The additional toolbars come from UI elements that are not surfaced (yet). This only occurs with an INI file present.

A new build is uploading right now.

Alex

jvierra · Post by **jvierra** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 9:21 am

Alex-Great!

Sorry - I didn't expect a new build - only wanted it on the bug list.

Thanks again Alex.

Byt the way. If it's only PrimalPad how come thert eare so many instances of the toolbar. I see 4 of each. It matches four of the products I ahveused.

I'll do some more checking - maybe you are right about that.

jvierra · Post by **jvierra** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 9:31 am

Alex - you are correct. It only happens with an ini file and only with PrimalPad.

Not such a big deal after all.

THe printers in primalpad do not remember the settings. Add to a later list as it's not a problem here.

Post by **Alexander Riedel** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 9:52 am

Not sure what you mean with printers not remembering settings. They don't anywhere. Whenever invoked the print settings are taken from the default system settings which can only be permanently changed in the control panel. Every software is supposed to work that way.
Am I missing something?

jvierra · Post by **jvierra** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 10:20 am

No the printer settings are supoed to be remembered per application. In Office it always remembers my setting on a per document basis. This is kept both in the document and the registry I believe.

In PrimalPad we have the "print setup" menu item on the file menu. It creates the "Printer" key in the root of HKCU (not supposed to be there). This is where printer preferences are to be saved for the application.

Key is created by PrimalPad when you alter print setup. I believe the setup and reg stuff is done in background by NET callses for printer.

jvierra · Post by **jvierra** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 10:23 am

Sorry Alex - I just discovered that that i being set by the pprionter software when I print from PrimalPad.

My error.

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