Linking styles statically

Is it possible to link the Office2007.cjstyles into the EXE?

Hi,

I guess it will work even without creating temporary file. Just specify your executable file in firsts parameter of LoadSkin.

ABuenger wrote: Tried to add the .cjstyles file to the resources, but in CXTPSkinManagerResourceFile::Open the resource can not be found, the following line failes. HRSRC hRsrc = FindResource(m_hModule, strFilePath, _T("TEXTFILE")); I guess the problem is that the TEXTFILE resource is wrapped in the executable. My executable \ cjstyles (executable) \ TEXTFILE resource Then I've tried to add the "SkinFramework/Styles/Office2007/Office2007.rc" file to my resources, which results in "file not found: res\Office2007_Normal.ini" errors. Should I add the cjstyles or rc file to my resources?

Excuse any typos since I'm typing this in on the fly...

// CString m_strSkinTempFilename
HRSRC   hResource;
HGLOBAL   hGlbl;
LPVOID   hLockedResource;
long   l;
FILE   *fTemp;

if ( (hResource = FindResource(AfxGetInstanceHandle(), MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_MYSKINRESOURCE), _T("TEXTFILE")) ) != NULL)
{
 if ( (hGlbl = LoadResource(AfxGetInstanceHandle(), hResource) ) != NULL)
 {
  l = SizeofResource(AfxGetInstanceHandle(), hResource);
   if ( (hLockedResource = LockResource(hGlbl)) != NULL)
   {
    if ((fTemp = _fsopen(m_strSkinTempFilename, "wb+", SH_DENYWR)) != NULL)
    {
     fwrite(hLockedResource, 1, l, fTemp);
     fclose(fTemp);

    }
    DeleteObject(hLockedResource);

   }
   DeleteObject(hGlbl);
   
 }
 DeleteObject(hResource);

}

...

CXTPSkinManager()->LoadSkin(m_strSkinTempFilename);

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Don't forget to delete the tempfile at shutdown, and you'll want to add some additional code to confirm that the skin was actually loaded.

Oleg's suggestion may work too, however I'm not familiar with what he's talking about, so I'll leave it up to him to assist you.

Ok, I've added the Office2007.rc to my rc2 file, added "..\Source\SkinFramework\Styles\Office2007" to my include folders and it compiles and it loads the skin, but the result is not what I've expected:

That doesn't look like Office 2007 for me

I've figured out why it didn't worked, the problem is in CXTPSkinManager::LoadSkin

 BOOL bOffice2007 = CString(lpszResourcePath).Find(_T("Office2007")) > 0;
 m_pSchema = bOffice2007 ? new CXTPSkinManagerSchemaOffice2007(this) : new CXTPSkinManagerSchemaDefault(this);

I had to add "Office2007" to my executables name and then it worked fine.

Please change, overload or whatever it with CXTPSkinManager::LoadSkin(LPCTSTR lpszResourcePath, LPCTSTR lpszIniFileName, XTPSkin skin=xtpSkinOffice2007) or whatever...

oleg wrote: For next vresion we will add SetShema method to allow you manually set CXTPSkinManagerSchemaOffice2007 class.

Thanks, that would solve my problems, but is still not perfect. Users should be able to browse for *.cjstyles and *.msstyles skins, so wheter at compile nor at runtime I know the schema of the file.

oleg wrote: CString(lpszResourcePath).Find(_T("Office2007"))  will still present, so if user browse it it will use correct Schema....

That assumes that the file will not be renamed. What if the user renames Office2007.cjstyles to renamed.cjstyles?

Adding the schema to the ini file would be the best idea.