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Bojo



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 4:47 am    Post subject: Windows XP look Reply with quote
Hi

How come some controls has the XP look (f.inst. the scrollbars in TextBox), but others (f.inst Buttons and Checkboxes) doesn't?

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Chris Miller



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 3:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
When loading those controls from the NULL instance, they have the classic look; probably for compatibility reasons. The XP styles are loaded elsewhere, maybe shell32.
I'm not sure how I should handle this yet.
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Chris Miller



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
OK, the XP styles are from comctl32.dll version 6. Here's more information on it if you want to try it yourself: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/xptheming.asp
I'm not using XP so I might have a hard time with it Wink
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qbert



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Does the 'XP' look by default come with those blue shadowed menus ? And 'rollover' style buttons etc ? I remember reading something about this it needs a 'manifest' of some sort i think.

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Bojo



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Vathix wrote:
OK, the XP styles are from comctl32.dll version 6. Here's more information on it if you want to try it yourself: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/xptheming.asp
I'm not using XP so I might have a hard time with it Wink


I've tried the manifest thing with some DFL examples, and everything looks ok except the standard button!

In XP the standard button gets an ugly border:



Left button is DFL, right button is from windows explorer.
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Chris Miller



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Try:

Code:
import dfl.winapi;
SetWindowLongA(button.handle, GWL_STYLE, GetWindowLongA(button.handle, GWL_STYLE) | 0x00008000);


It sets the style BS_FLAT. If that doesn't work, then I don't know. Should I install XP just for this? ;p
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Bojo



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 8:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Vathix wrote:
Try:

Code:
import dfl.winapi;
SetWindowLongA(button.handle, GWL_STYLE, GetWindowLongA(button.handle, GWL_STYLE) | 0x00008000);


It sets the style BS_FLAT. If that doesn't work, then I don't know. Should I install XP just for this? ;p


Didn't help. Sad

I've just noticed that the radiobutton also have a problem. The background is solid black, when using the XP-manifest.

The checkbox looks fine.

It seems that Visual Basic has the same problem:
http://groups.google.dk/groups?q=xp+manifest+black+background&hl=da&lr=&selm=1015509510.467705?40ernani.logica.co.uk&rnum=10
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Bojo



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 1:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Just tried making some buttons and radiobuttons in D using only the API. Everything looks fine when applying the XP manifest. Confused
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qbert



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Using only the win32 API ?

Can you paste the code and the linking / compiling options ? Maybe its something to do with the linker .

Also how do you use a manifest with DFL ?

Thanks!

Charlie
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Bojo



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 3:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
qbert wrote:
Using only the win32 API ?

Can you paste the code and the linking / compiling options ? Maybe its something to do with the linker .


Well, I simply took the winsamp.d example from dmd's sample folder and changed one of the buttons into a radiobutton.

Code:

//   btnDontClick = CreateWindowA("BUTTON", "DON'T CLICK!", WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE,
//      110, 0, 100, 25, hWnd, cast(HMENU) IDC_BTNDONTCLICK, hInst, null);

   btnDontClick = CreateWindowA("BUTTON", "DON'T CLICK!", WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | BS_AUTORADIOBUTTON | BS_LEFT | BS_VCENTER, 110, 0, 100, 25, hWnd, cast(HMENU) IDC_BTNDONTCLICK, hInst, null);


qbert wrote:
Also how do you use a manifest with DFL ?


I just saved it as a file "Winsamp.exe.manifest"

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Bo
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