Switching Themes on a CXTPTabClientWnd

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   I'm working on making a UI that is best described as Visual Studio with a ribbon.  I just put in the workspace area, using CXTPTabClientWnd, and was absolutely gleeful that it just picked up the theme that my ribbon was already using and rendered itself appropriately.  That is awesome.

I have one minor problem: when I change themes the CXTPTabClientWnd only partially updates itself.  The current tab changes to reflect the new theme, but the background behind the tabs and the tabs which aren't selected retain the old theme.  Tabs that aren't selected actually use the new theme for their mouseover state, but go back to the old theme after the mouse leaves.

Here's a screenshot:

I started with the black theme and then switched to silver.  Resource 1 is the current tab and correctly using the new theme.  Resource 0 is not the current tab and is incorrectly using the old theme.  Resource 2 has the mouse over it and only uses the new theme while in that state.  As soon as the mouse leaves it, it will go back to looking like Resource 0.  It's not shown in the picture, but the area of the tab control that has no tabs (including the Close and Arrow buttons) is also still using the old theme.

Here's the code I'm using to change themes:

// record the newly selected theme

m_SelectedTheme = Theme;

// determine the appropriate INI resource to load it from

LPCTSTR IniName = 0;

switch (m_SelectedTheme) {

    case FrameTheme_Aqua:

        IniName = _T("OFFICE2007AQUA_INI");

        break;

    case FrameTheme_Black:

        IniName = _T("OFFICE2007BLACK_INI");

        break;

    case FrameTheme_Blue:

        IniName = _T("OFFICE2007BLUE_INI");

        break;

    case FrameTheme_Silver:

        IniName = _T("OFFICE2007SILVER_INI");

        break;

}

// set the new theme

((CXTPRibbonTheme*)this->GetCommandBars()->GetPaintManager())->SetImageHandle(g_Application.GetHandle(), IniName);

// refresh everything if requested

if (Refresh) {

    this->GetCommandBars()->GetImageManager()->RefreshAll();

    this->GetCommandBars()->RedrawCommandBars();

    this->SendMessage(WM_NCPAINT);

    this->RedrawWindow(0, 0, RDW_ALLCHILDREN | RDW_INVALIDATE);

}

I would normally guess that there's method of CXTPTabClientWnd that I should be calling to have it refresh itself.  However, since it at least partially responds to the theme changing (the active tab does change correctly), I'm not so sure that I'm forgetting something.  In theory, I'd guess that passing RDW_ALLCHILDREN to RedrawWindow would cause any refreshing necessary (since the CXTPTabClientWnd instance is a child of the class that contains that code, which is the CXTPMDIFrameWnd).

Any ideas?

Thanks!