This took me a long time to figure out myself. MS really messed up here, or I am missing something. It is stupid to allow the user to move the bands but now allow the positioning to be saved and retrieved again.
You need to use a combination of the Visible and NewRow properties.
What I have done is saved the Position and the value of the NewRow properites
of each Band to the registry. You have to make sure that the Band.NewRow value that gets saved to the registry for the Band in the first position gets set to false or you will need an error catcher when this Bands NewRow property gets set (you cannot set the band in position 1)
Then, I have a Sub that gets the values from the registry and sets the values of the cool bar in the same sub.
Now, here's the trick: The first thing that you need to do is set the Visible properties of ALL the bands to FALSE.
Then, in the REVERSE order of the saved position, make each Band one-by-one visible again. This will change the Positionvalues of the Bands.
If I have 3 Bands with inde 1,2,3 and the user has positioned them in the order 2,3,1 then you make them visible again in that order.
The next thing is to do is get the saved NewRow property values and assign them to the Bands - again, make sure that the item in position 1 doesn't get set.
The Sub that you call that sets the values of the cool bar MUST be called right AFTER the form is shown, otherwise it will not act right.
The last thing that needs to be done isthe form needs to be resized (you should have a Sub anyways that helps you out here)
