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Hi!

I`m trying to find an easy and working way to put some custom settings in the registry along with the information about menu/toolbar and commands. A setting like this could be e.g. header-order/sortment of my listcontrol in report view.

I have done some searching on this subject, looking at the source-code of CExtCmdManager, CExtCmdProfile, etc. I`m guessing a working way could be the following:

1. Derive a class from CExtCmdProfile, override SerializeState(CArchive & ar) function, putting/getting my own settings in/from the ar as well. (CMyCmdProfile)

2. Derive a class from CExtCmdManager, override ProfileGetPtr(sProfileName) function, so that it would return a CMyProfile*. (CMyCmdManager)

3. use reinterpret_cast<CMyCmdManager*>(g_CmdManager->)... wherever necessary.

My question would be: isn`t there an easier way? And would this way work at all?

While waiting for your answer, I`ll be working on this version but I`m afraid it might not work.

Thank you in advance: Chris.

We suggest you not change behavior of the command manager. Instead just use the WriteProfileString/GetProfileString, WriteProfileInt/GetProfileInt or WriteProfileBinary/GetProfileBinary methods of the CWinApp class. These methods are used for saving/loading the user data into/from the specified section of the application’s registry or INI file.