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Too dark color used in flat toolbar

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Topic: Too dark color used in flat toolbar

Posted By: mgampi
Subject: Too dark color used in flat toolbar
Date Posted: 23 May 2017 at 7:01am

Hello;

I use a toolbar in a dialog and create it as streched and with no border using black office 2010 theme:

  CXTPCommandBars* CommandBars = GetCommandBars();
  CommandBars->SetTheme(xtpThemeResource);
  Toolbar_.SetCommandBars(CommandBars);
  VERIFY(Toolbar_.CreateToolBar(WS_TABSTOP|WS_VISIBLE|WS_CHILD|CBRS_TOOLTIPS, this));
  VERIFY(Toolbar_.LoadToolBar(IDR_TOOLBAR));
  Toolbar_.ShowExpandButton(FALSE);
  Toolbar_.SetFlags(xtpFlagAlignTop|xtpFlagStretched|xtpFlagNoBorders);

The toolbar background is almost as dark as the labels. Therefor it's hard to read them!

When I remove the xtpFlagNoBorder flag the background is lighter and the colors differ much better. But without the flag the edges look ugly inside my dialog box:

I want to get the background as drawn in the second screenshot, but with the overall appearance as in the first screenshot. Is this a bug or not?

How?

TIA

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Martin

Product: Xtreme Toolkit v 22.1.0, new Projects v 24.0.0
Platform: Windows 10 v 22H2 (64bit)
Language: VC++ 2022