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One theme for all controls?

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Topic: One theme for all controls?

Posted By: maxxan
Subject: One theme for all controls?
Date Posted: 11 January 2016 at 8:13am

Is there a way to set one theme for the app (say VS2015) and then all controls uses that theme or do I have to set the theme for every single control, like report control, pane manager, task panels etc? Sounds very inconvenient that that's the case!

I tried

XTPThemeDLL()->SetHandle(xtpIniVisualStudio2015Dark);

CXTPPaintManager::SetTheme(xtpThemeVisualStudio2015);

in OnCreate, before any other control is created, but that does just change the theme for ribbons and the frame, but all controls in the app have a different theme..

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Posted By: cpede
Date Posted: 11 January 2016 at 8:44am

I fully understand your frustration. Just look at the samples, how many time SetTheme, SetStyle etc. are called.

I wrote a similar question in: http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=22449" rel="nofollow - http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=22449

I really hope CodeJock consider this.

-cpede

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Product: Xtreme ToolkitPro (20.3.0)
Platform: Windows 10 (x64)
Language: Visual Studio 2017 (C++)

Posted By: maxxan
Date Posted: 11 January 2016 at 9:30am

Yeah, it would be so much better if it was possible to set a theme for the whole application.

Posted By: kstowell
Date Posted: 11 January 2016 at 6:40pm

You can use your top level window to send a WM_XTP_SETCONTROLTHEME message to all Controls objects like Buttons, Edit, etc that will allow you to make a single call. We will be adding this functionality to remaining classes as well in the near future.

XTPThemeDLL()->SetHandle(xtpIniVisualStudio2015Light);SendMessageToDescendants(WM_XTP_SETCONTROLTHEME, xtpControlThemeVisualStudio2015);
RedrawWindow(0, 0, RDW_ALLCHILDREN|RDW_INVALIDATE|RDW_ERASE);

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Kirk Stowell, President and CEO
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS<

Posted By: maxxan
Date Posted: 12 January 2016 at 2:37am

Ok, so I create all controls first, then set the theme..

Maybe you should add that when a control is created, it should set its theme to what is currently set as a default theme.