Many applications are now allowing users to customize toolbars with their own
preferences. You can also provide your users the ability to customize the toolbars
you create within your application. The first thing you must do before a user
can change your toolbar is to set the AllowCustomize property to True. As long
as AllowCustomize is False, the user cannot make changes.
After AllowCustomize is set to True, customization
takes place through the Customize Toolbar dialog
box, as shown in Figure 4.11.
This dialog box becomes available to the user
in one of two ways:
If you will be allowing a user to make changes to a toolbar, you should consider
using two additional methods: SaveToolbar and RestoreToolbar. With these two methods,
you can save settings from the toolbar in the Windows Registry and then read them
back at a later time to restore the appearance of a toolbar either to the original
settings or to the user's personal settings when the application is restarted.
FIGURE 4.11 The Customize Toolbar dialog
box.
The SaveToolbar method has the following syntax:
Toolbar1.SaveToolbar(key As String, subkey
As String, value As String)
The RestoreToolbar has the following syntax:
Toolbar1.RestoreToolbar(key As String, subkey
As String, value As String)
The key and subkey arguments are the key and subkey of the Windows Registry
at which you are storing information or from where you are retrieving information.
The value argument is the information that you are saving or reading.
ToolBar Control topics
