Colors for menus and toolbars?

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   ok, the office2003 setting seems to only change the shape and structure of controls, so can anyone tell me is there some way to change the colors to the blue scheme office 2003 uses?
any help is appreciated

Doug

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kingfenix Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 17 August 2004 Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote kingfenix Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Colors for menus and toolbars? Posted: 17 August 2004 at 3:24pm
	ok, the office2003 setting seems to only change the shape and structure of controls, so can anyone tell me is there some way to change the colors to the blue scheme office 2003 uses? any help is appreciated Doug

Maui Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 10 June 2004 Status: Offline Points: 95	Post Options Post Reply Quote Maui Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 August 2004 at 3:55pm
	When you set the Visual Theme property to Office2003 the control should automatically display in whatever theme XP is currently using. If you arent developing on an xp machine then I dont know what would happen. I just did a test. I currently have blue theme on but I changed to Olive Theme and then ran my program and it displayed the menu in Olive Theme. So you dont need to make any changes to make it display in blue, it should detect it and then display in the appropriate theme colour. Or if you mean how do you set the colour of other controls to be the same blue then I use this formMain.BackColor = formMain.CommandBars.GetSpecialColor(XPCOLOR_SPLITTER_FACE)

Boyd Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 08 December 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 285	Post Options Post Reply Quote Boyd Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 August 2004 at 7:37am
	If you're running the Office2003 theme on a non-XP machine, you won't get the XP visual themes (which is what the Blue and Olive schemes are). If you install Office2003 on a non-XP machine, you'll see that CommandBars accurately mimics the look-and-feel of Office2003 as it is displayed on non-XP machines. I seem to remember this question coming up in the past, so search the forums. I believe a user posted a suggestion for how to come close to duplicating the Blue theme on a non-XP machine using the Office2003 theme. That post might help answer your question.

Boyd Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 08 December 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 285	Post Options Post Reply Quote Boyd Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 August 2004 at 7:41am
	This is the previous user post I was referring to. Turns out this solution was not for the ActiveX version of the control, so you won't be able to use it (ActiveX doesn't support custom themes). Here's the post anyway: https://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=403&K W=office2003 Edited by Boyd

Maui Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 10 June 2004 Status: Offline Points: 95	Post Options Post Reply Quote Maui Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 August 2004 at 4:55am
	Perhaps try this: CommandBars.Options.LunaColors = True

SuperMario Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 14 February 2004 Status: Offline Points: 18057	Post Options Post Reply Quote SuperMario Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 October 2004 at 8:59am
	Take a look at the MDISample in the new release (Click on the custom theme button), the new method CommadnBars::SetSpecialColor (It appears this did not get compiled into the help file) is used to customize the colors of your commandbars