How to use visual styles on windows xp




















NET Windows Forms. Prerequisites You will need a few things to complete this tutorial: The Microsoft. NET , which really aids in designing your Windows Forms optional Microsoft Windows XP , the only currently, fully-released Windows operating system that supports theming and is needed for testing optional Getting Started Getting started is simple though none of this is hard : open Visual Studio.

When you're finished, your code should look something like the following: C. Copy Code. Heath Stewart. Software Developer Microsoft. Heath Stewart is a happily married software engineer originally from the Midwest and a graduate of Iowa State University. Heath start programming early in life and enjoys continuous research and development in new languages, frameworks, and platforms.

Fluent in many different programming languages, he has developed many large-scale software solutions for companies in different areas, such as Internet filtering, intrusion detection systems, production management systems, and web applications for various purposes. He also enjoys photography. He is also a CodeProject protector and is happy to help the development community. Heath Stewart 5-Apr This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Heath Stewart Apr Heath Stewart Feb Houssam Alshami Sep Fiorina81 May Heath Stewart May Ecaterina Mar Pradeep Shetye May Heath Stewart 4-Feb Tom Mat Jan Heath Stewart Jan Leyu Jan Heath Stewart 6-Jan Go to top. Layout: fixed fluid. United States. First Prev Next. My vote of 5 Manoj Kumar Choubey Feb Manoj Kumar Choubey. Using it, how do you change styles? Hi, It seemed to work for me, at least at first, but the style was just the default Windows XP.

How does one plug in different styles, to get some fancy different looks? Best regards Re: Using it, how do you change styles? It's Windows that provides the style. If you want a different style on a per-app basis, you'll need a library to draw everything including the non-client window regions.

Thanks for your reply. I think I'm missing the point of your tutorial completely. Now that I have it working, how do I use it to actually do anything? As the introduction to the article points out, it's to make your.

NET 1. It isn't intended to "do" anything: just look consistent with other apps. EnableVisualStyles that wasn't available with. But i can not work on my computer! EnableVisualStyles ; Application. I'm using C in VS ! Maybe the demo donot work because of this??? Any suggestion? I cannot get it to work joe Feb First let me tell you, it's great to have guys like you willing to share this kind of tips, appreciated big time. I have followed the article step by step more than once but I cannot get the expected shinny XP like Window , I'm using C in VS , do you think there could be a problem with the VS release?

Re: I cannot get it to work Heath Stewart Feb NET 2. It's easier just to call the following in your Main entry point : Copy Code Application. Re: I cannot get it to work Houssam Alshami Sep Houssam Alshami. Button with Image Fiorina81 May Once you have found this, you can then edit the key to change the colour variation of the visual style at logon other than the default colour of a visual style :yes: Now you should be able to see the visual styles you want on the classic logon, as well as any colour sub-styles within your custom visual style : If you have any problems with this, contact me via PM.

Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Author Veteran. Posted March 22, Hope this helps other members too : Radish? This topic is now closed to further replies. Go to topic listing.

Recently Browsing 0 members No registered users viewing this page. Sign In Sign Up. Add this line to stdAfx. When I tried to run it I got the following error messages as well as many warning dialog boxes : First-chance exception in xpTest. First-chance exception in xpTest.

So I removed manifest. Not only were things not corrupted, but they now had the XP look! Unfortunately, when I came back to it later it had reverted back to the windows 95 style. Worse yet class view was no longer working. Anyone have any ideas how to make this work for VC4. Something isn't right here alan93 Aug What is that? Again what is "Select All Files"? This is in VS 6. Click import and select the file. And then it will request for the Resource Type, then u can enter as 24 and then ok.

Now the resource in your project will get updated with the file. It works! Priya Sundar. Hello, I am trying to use XP styles using the directions described here, but it does not seem to work with my win32 app.

The example code provided here uses MFC. I have noticed the following output when I try to run my program: 'BigPricer. The program '[] BigPricer. It would seem that the app is loading two versions of the comctl32 dll.

I am using Visual Studio Thanks, Samwise. I had similar trouble with Win32 projects, the resource was compiling to my exe file but had no effect on appearance.

I did 3 things: 1. The whole process is extremely flakey and poorly documented unless you're using MFC and Visual Studio. Hello , I'm trying to get back to the old Win9X style but I can't.

Nothing worked. I'm stuck. Thanks for your help. Re: how do you rollback? Is This Needed? InitCommonControls Function Registers and initializes the common control window classes. This function is obsolete. New applications should use the InitCommonControlsEx function.



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