Skins/themes

[Peter Morris [Droopy eyes software]]

Hi all

In a Win32 app all I need to do is to include a manifest in my EXE and all
the windows controls will use the current Windows theme. So instead of old
rectangular buttons I get XP rounded rectangular buttons with a slight
shading etc.

My boss wants to demo an app but he wants it to "look prettier". I wondered
if there was something similar I could do on a PPC CF app?


Thanks

Pete

 

[Norman Rericha]

You can use images on the buttons, unfortuantly I have never seen this
look right. So I would recommend creating custom buttons that support
images. Then you can simply create new button images - for any
look/feel you want. This is also helpful because then you can "skin"
your application.

Unfortunatly there is no "sexy" buttons like XP.

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I hope this helps

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Norman Rericha
Senior Software Engineer
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