Themed dialog caption disappears

Hi

I've got a weird problem with the skins in a dialog application. By default it is set to use the Vista skin - when it runs first time I see this effect:

Ignoring the fact no skin is loaded, you can see that the caption bar is not being painted at all. What worse is that if focus returns to the app the caption appears for a second or two and then disappears.

I am only calling these XTP functions during OnInitDialog().

1. XTPSkinManager()->ApplyWindow(m_hWnd);
2. XTPSkinManager()->LoadSkin("path to skin file");
3. RedrawWindow(NULL,NULL,RDW_FRAME|RDW_INVALIDATE|RDW_UPDATENOW|RDW_ERASE|RDW_ALLCHILDREN);

Does the skin manager get confused if the dialog is resized/repositioned?

Any ideas? I am uncomfortably close to a release and I need to be certain this is all going to work correctly.

Thanks.

Jerry

Why would that help? I do not have a window handle at that point and therefore would not be able to call RedrawWindow() to ensure caption changes etc.

I think I have identified the problem. The skin framework works by hooking API calls. The release version of Riffster is processed by some anti-cracking software which patches the import table etc to make reverse engineering more difficult. I rather suspect this is the problem. I am going to put some tracer code into the hooking sections and see where it is failing.

In my opinion sophisticated anti-cracking software is a waste of money.