CMainFrame not skinned

 

I'd like that every window of my application to be skinned, but not my CMainFrame.

 

I call XTPSkinManager()->AutoApplyNewWindows(TRUE) and XTPSkinManager()->LoadSkin(...)

in CMainFrame constructor.

 

Then, in CMainFrame::OnCreate, I call XTPSkinManager()->Remove(m_hWnd) but it doesn't seem to work.

 

Where am I wrong?

 

Thanks a lot

 

Are you sure CMainFrame is the window being skinned?

Perhaps you have some MDI children that occupy the view and makes it look like the main frame is skinned?

 

Try stepping into CXTPSkinManager::Remove and see what goes wrong...

 

HHOOK    CYourApp::s_hMsgBoxHook = NULL;

LRESULT CALLBACK CYourApp::CBTProc(int nCode, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
    if (nCode < 0)
        return CallNextHookEx(s_hMsgBoxHook, nCode, wParam, lParam);

    if (nCode == HCBT_CREATEWND)
    {
        UnhookWindowsHookEx(s_hMsgBoxHook);
        s_hMsgBoxHook = NULL;

        XTPSkinManager()->ApplyWindow((HWND)wParam);

        return 0;
    }

    // Call the next hook, if there is one.
    return CallNextHookEx(s_hMsgBoxHook, nCode, wParam, lParam);
}

int CYourApp::DoMessageBox(LPCTSTR lpszPrompt, UINT nType, UINT nIDPrompt)
{
    // Install a window hook, so we can intercept the message-box creation, and customize it.
    s_hMsgBoxHook = SetWindowsHookEx(WH_CBT, CBTProc, NULL, GetCurrentThreadId());
   
    // Display a standard message box.
    int retVal = CWinApp::DoMessageBox(lpszPrompt, nType, nIDPrompt);

    // Remove the window hook!
    if (s_hMsgBoxHook)
        UnhookWindowsHookEx(s_hMsgBoxHook);
   
    return retVal;
}

 

Anyway, are you absolutely sure that AutoApplyNewWindows is the culprit? If that is the case, I would really like to avoid it myself. Haven't seen problems with it so far though.

 

Is it possible that one of your update-handlers goes nuts? E.g. enabling -> disabling -> enabling -> disabling...?

 

For your own windows, a hook is not necessary. All you need is to handle CYourWnd::OnCreate(...) and add m_hWnd to the skin-manager.