SAP GUI for Windows SAPSettingsShow Registry Entry AppsSapGuiVisualTheme_ReadOnly Without Function

[Stefan-Schnell]

Based on the questions about the enabling of the SAP GUI visual theme for applications in the SapSettingShow.exe here and here I tried to use the special handling for the read-only feature, which is described at the SAP GUI Administration Application Page.

But, as far as I can say, this feature don't work. I monitored the registry accesses from sapsettingshow.exe and I found the access to HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node\SAP\General\Applications key, but no query to any value below the key.

In sapsettings.ocx I found only an entry called AppsSapGuiVisualTheme, without _ReadOnly. I tried this too, but without success. Is this registry entry not used? This means, is the read-only feature not available?

frank.krause, maybe you can take a look it.

Thanks for hints and tips.

[FrankKrauseGUI · Accepted solution]

Hello Stefan,

I would say you must have done something wrong 😉

Here is the situation without the registry value set:



You see that the buttons are active.

And now after setting the registry value AppsSapGuiVisualTheme_ReadOnly to 1:



Now the buttons are disabled.

Could it be that you did not activate the read only feature at all?

Registry value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\SAP\General\CurRegValReadOnlyActive set to 1.

If the feature is active, you will find a "partly read-only" in the window title (like in my screenshots).

Best regards,
Frank

[Stefan-Schnell · Accepted solution]

Hello Frank,

thank you very much for your explanation. Yes, you are right, I don't activate the CurRegValReadOnlyActive value.

Best regards
Stefan