Background color bug?

[zou]

The customized background color of CVI often get lost.

I don't like the white background.  So I changed it to black.  But CVI often changes it back to white without my approve.

Where CVI save the background color information?  I'd like to make a backup copy.

I'm using Vista 32bit version.  CVI 8.1.1

George Zou

[JettR]

Hello George,

CVI stores its color information in the registry.  You can find the key for CVI 8.1 at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\National Instruments\CVI\8.1\ColorPreferences.  I hope this helps.

[zou]

Thanks.  That solved the problem.

George

[zou]

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JettR wrote:
Hello George,

CVI stores its color information in the registry.  You can find the key for CVI 8.1 at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\National Instruments\CVI\8.1\ColorPreferences.  I hope this helps.

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It seems this trick doesn't work for CVI 8.5.   Any idea?

[JettR]

Hey George,

That is interesting behavior.  For CVI 8.5, I am assuming you are making a backup copy of the entire HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\National Instruments\CVI\8.5\ColorPreferences folder.  I am also believe that you may have multiple versions of CVI on this computer.  What happens if you merge the color preference folder into all of your CVI versions?  I look forward to hearing back from you.

[ldp]

Hello Zou,

after you change your CVI colors and restart CVI, do the new colors persist? If so, then it would seem like a Windows problem where the registry entries are not saved correctly.

Best regards
LDP

[zou]

Tried on my laptop.  Seems working.