visual styles support

[ht990332]

I'm writing applications in vc++ .net 2003. How do I give
the applications visual styles on winxp without adding a
..manifest file?

 

[Jeff Partch [MVP]]

I'm writing applications in vc++ .net 2003. How do I give
the applications visual styles on winxp without adding a
.manifest file?

If I understand the question, then the answer is to add a manifest resource.

 

[ht990332]

Do you mean adding a .manifest file? ( for example
app.exe => app.exe.manifest ) ?

 

[Jeff Partch [MVP]]

Do you mean adding a .manifest file? ( for example
app.exe => app.exe.manifest ) ?

Not sure, but I don't think so. What I mean involves adding an RT_MANIFEST
resource to your application as is documented here...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/xptheming.asp

 

[ht990332]

Ok I'll try it. Shouldn't be that hard.

Btw, can I find sample code on msdn library so I can see
an example of this?

 

[Girish Bharadwaj]

I am pretty sure you are not writing a Managed C++ code. If you are, You can
use Application.EnableVisualStyles() which should allow you to do that.

Check out
http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/rprabhu/permalink.aspx/6b1a5495-c790-4e2f-972f-afb01f0164cf

For some more information about visual styles.

 

[Sarat Venugopal]

Platform SDK covers this territory well. Search for "Visual Styles". Also
provides a custom control sample with visual style support.

Cheers,
Sarat Venugopal
www.huelix.com