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    Posted: 20 February 2005 at 7:26pm
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You already asked that, go read the previous thread.
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can i derive from CXTPControlComboBox to make it come true?
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can't.

What problem to add manifest?
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The problem for him is the manifest doesn't work under 2000....

I noticed in the FlatCombo sample you have Office 2003 themes for the FlatCombo and FlatEdit control.  The buttons have Office 2003 style as well, but what about checkboxes and radio buttons? Do you have Office 2003 or Office XP style themes for those?
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Not yet. :(
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Any plans? While dialog boxes aren't really as important as the toolbars and docking panes since users don't see them as much, it would be cool to be able to theme them all as Office 2003 flat stles as well.
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Office XP/2003 only use flat combo boxes in toolbars, all dialog elements are standard windows controls - with and without a manifest.
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Yes but even on Windows XP, Office doesn't seem to use the XP manifest and the buttons in dialogs look like Windows 2000 still.
Why stop at doing things only the way Office does, when you can improve upon it and make things even prettier looking?
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Originally posted by Ark42 Ark42 wrote:


Yes but even on Windows XP, Office doesn't seem to use the XP manifest and the buttons in dialogs look like Windows 2000 still.

Office 2003 uses the manifest, all dialogs are themed.
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Originally posted by Sven Sven wrote:


Office 2003 uses the manifest, all dialogs are themed.



Really? Mine doesn't. Everything looks like Windows 2000 still.
The location toolbar in the open dialog uses the orange button theme, but the scrollbars and the rest of the real buttons still look like like Windows 2000.




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Look at this find dialog from Outlook 2003.  Some, but not all, of the dropdowns are themed.  Buttons and tabs and checkboxes certainly are not.  The edit boxes seem themed though.
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That's kind of strange... Here is the same dialog on my system:

I have a standard install of Windows XP SP2 and Office 2K3SP1.
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My install is actually in VMware with Windows XP (no SP) and Office 2003 (no SP) using installs from .ISO files from my MSDN subscription.
I just did a clean install just now to take those screenshots (I have VMware's saved snapstop at the clean OS install point with no additional software for every version of windows 95 to XP)
I wonder which patch it was that they finally added the manifest for it. Probably the Office 2003 SP1 I would guess.
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