Q: Saving window-settings on screen

iahtespam.grendel@epix.net (MacKinnon) wrote: 
I've learned that scary things can happen when trying to save form 
dimensions to the registry...for one, when a form is maximized or 
minimized, the left, right, width, and height tags are set as if the 
window really was that size, which can cause alot of havoc if one 
closes the program while minimized.  I worked around this, eventually, 
at an ugly price...the form restores before closing... 
What I'd like to ask is, isn't there some property that stores the 
last known values for the dimensions, if the window is maximized or 
minimized?  There must be something like this, since when you restore 
the form from either, it does go back where it was...I couldn't find 
any reference to this so far...at least with that, it'd be a simple 
matter of casing the windowstate when writing the keys, instead of all 
the hoops I have my programs jumping through now... 

A: 
Before saving the form-size you check on the WindowState. 
So when it is not 0 you don't save the current size. That will start the application 
the next time with the last dimensions or (if there are none) with de design-dimensions.

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