how to show xp style without manifest
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Topic: how to show xp style without manifest
Posted By: stephen_hyc
Subject: how to show xp style without manifest
Date Posted: 20 February 2005 at 7:26pm
| how to show xp style without manifest |
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Posted By: Ark42
Date Posted: 21 February 2005 at 12:03am
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You already asked that, go read the previous thread. |
Posted By: stephen_hyc
Date Posted: 24 February 2005 at 3:04am
| can i derive from CXTPControlComboBox to make it come true? |
Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 24 February 2005 at 4:27am
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can't. What problem to add manifest? ------------- Oleg, Support Team CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS |
Posted By: Ark42
Date Posted: 24 February 2005 at 10:43am
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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? |
Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 24 February 2005 at 11:53am
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Not yet. :( ------------- Oleg, Support Team CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS |
Posted By: Ark42
Date Posted: 24 February 2005 at 12:08pm
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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. |
Posted By: Sven
Date Posted: 25 February 2005 at 2:42am
| Office XP/2003 only use flat combo boxes in toolbars, all dialog elements are standard windows controls - with and without a manifest. |
Posted By: Ark42
Date Posted: 25 February 2005 at 10:23am
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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? |
Posted By: Sven
Date Posted: 25 February 2005 at 10:34am
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Office 2003 uses the manifest, all dialogs are themed. |
Ark42 wrote:Posted By: Ark42
Date Posted: 25 February 2005 at 11:04am
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.  |
Posted By: Ark42
Date Posted: 25 February 2005 at 11:11am
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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.  |
Posted By: gshawn
Date Posted: 25 February 2005 at 12:03pm
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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. |
Posted By: Ark42
Date Posted: 25 February 2005 at 12:10pm
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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. |