Themes on W2K...

I was testing an app on a W2K box that uses the Office/2003 theme, and the colors are all dull. 

What do most of you do in this situation?  Do you switch to a Office/2000 theme on W2K?  Do you try to emulate themes by hardcoding the colors in the paint manager?  I really don't want to ship something that is that dull...

Thanks!

- David Little

That looks pretty good,except for the pane colors.  I guess I need to do something similar for those colors.  I'll try it tomorrow...

- David Little

For my docking panes, I have this:

 GetDockingPaneManager()->SetTheme(xtpPaneThemeOffic e2003);

which is a different method than the overridden theme.  The color arrays and theme members are the same.  Am I using this wrong?

- David

Ok, well I hadn't used the docking pain until now, but I think it needs its own theme, because its derived from some other class:

class CXTPDockingPaneOffice2003ThemeEx : public CXTPDockingPaneOffice2003Theme
{
public:
    CXTPDockingPaneOffice2003ThemeEx(BOOL bGreyToBlue = TRUE, BOOL bYellowHighlight = FALSE);
    BOOL m_bGreyToBlue, m_bYellowHighlight;
protected:
    virtual void RefreshMetrics();
};

CXTPDockingPaneOffice2003ThemeEx::CXTPDockingPaneOffice2 003ThemeEx(BOOL bGreyToBlue, BOOL bYellowHighlight)
{
    m_bGreyToBlue = bGreyToBlue;
    m_bYellowHighlight = bYellowHighlight;
    RefreshMetrics();
}

void CXTPDockingPaneOffice2003ThemeEx::RefreshMetrics()
{
    CXTPDockingPaneOffice2003Theme::RefreshMetrics();
    if( !m_bLunaTheme ) {
        CXTPColorManager *pClrMgr = XTPColorManager();
        COLORREF btn = pClrMgr->GetColor(COLOR_BTNFACE);
        if( m_bGreyToBlue && (btn == RGB(192, 192, 192) || btn == RGB(212, 208, 200)) ) {
            m_clrCommandBarDark = RGB(129, 169, 226);
            m_clrCommandBarLight = RGB(221, 236, 254);
            m_bLunaTheme = TRUE;

            m_arrColor[0] = RGB(0, 0, 0);
            m_arrColor[1] = RGB(0, 78, 152);
            m_arrColor[2] = RGB(0, 84, 227);
            m_arrColor[3] = RGB(122, 150, 223);
            m_arrColor[4] = RGB(255, 255, 255);
            m_arrColor[5] = RGB(255, 255, 255);
            m_arrColor[6] = RGB(0, 0, 0);
            m_arrColor[7] = RGB(0, 0, 0);
            m_arrColor[8] = RGB(0, 0, 0);
            m_arrColor[9] = RGB(255, 255, 255);
            m_arrColor[10] = RGB(212, 208, 200);
            m_arrColor[11] = RGB(212, 208, 200);
            m_arrColor[12] = RGB(128, 128, 128);
            m_arrColor[13] = RGB(49, 106, 197);
            m_arrColor[14] = RGB(255, 255, 255);
            m_arrColor[15] = RGB(236, 233, 216);
            m_arrColor[16] = RGB(172, 168, 153);
            m_arrColor[17] = RGB(172, 168, 153);
            m_arrColor[18] = RGB(0, 0, 0);
            m_arrColor[19] = RGB(216, 228, 248);
            m_arrColor[20] = RGB(255, 255, 255);
            m_arrColor[21] = RGB(113, 111, 100);
            m_arrColor[22] = RGB(251, 248, 231);
            m_arrColor[23] = RGB(0, 0, 0);
            m_arrColor[24] = RGB(255, 255, 225);
            m_arrColor[25] = RGB(181, 181, 181);
            m_arrColor[26] = RGB(0, 0, 128);
            m_arrColor[27] = RGB(61, 149, 255);
            m_arrColor[28] = RGB(0, 0, 0);
            m_arrColor[29] = RGB(0, 0, 0);
            m_arrColor[30] = RGB(158, 190, 245);
            m_arrColor[31] = RGB(255, 238, 194);
            m_arrColor[32] = RGB(0, 0, 128);
            m_arrColor[33] = RGB(254, 128, 62);
            m_arrColor[34] = RGB(144, 157, 178);
            m_arrColor[35] = RGB(197, 194, 184);
            m_arrColor[36] = RGB(255, 192, 111);
            m_arrColor[37] = RGB(0, 0, 128);
            m_arrColor[38] = RGB(39, 65, 118);
            m_arrColor[39] = RGB(106, 140, 203);
            m_arrColor[40] = RGB(109, 150, 208);
            m_arrColor[41] = RGB(246, 246, 246);
            m_arrColor[42] = RGB(230, 227, 210);
            m_arrColor[43] = RGB(0, 45, 150);
            m_arrColor[44] = RGB(0, 0, 0);
            m_arrColor[45] = RGB(0, 0, 0);
            m_arrColor[46] = RGB(0, 0, 0);
            m_arrColor[47] = RGB(0, 0, 0);
            m_arrColor[48] = RGB(218, 233, 255);
            m_arrColor[49] = RGB(129, 126, 114);
            m_arrColor[50] = RGB(0, 0, 128);
            m_arrColor[51] = RGB(216, 231, 252);
            m_arrColor[52] = RGB(158, 190, 245);
            m_arrColor[53] = RGB(203, 225, 252);
            m_arrColor[54] = RGB(0, 45, 150);
            m_arrColor[55] = RGB(196, 218, 250);
        } else if(m_bYellowHighlight) {
            m_arrColor[31] = RGB(255, 238, 194);
            m_arrColor[33] = RGB(254, 128, 62);
            m_arrColor[36] = RGB(255, 192, 111);
            m_bLunaTheme = TRUE;
        }
    }
}


    m_paneManager.SetCustomTheme(new CXTPDockingPaneOffice2003ThemeEx());


Its almost the same class, but it works like that.

What I havn't figured out yet is how to get the status bar color the proper shade of grey (by this I mean it is drawing as RGB(212, 208, 200) despite me wanting it RGB(236, 233, 216)):


..and how to get the edit box portion of a combo box on my toolbars to also use the proper shade of grey when disabled, and also its rightclick menu it not themed...