Is it possible to link the Office2007.cjstyles into the EXE?

Why not add it as a resource to your project?  This will compile it into your .exe.  In your CWinApp::InitInstance() load the resource and write it to disk as a temp file (prior to creating your document template).  When your main FrameWnd is constructed and you call XTPSkinManager()->LoadSkin(), just pass in the temp pathname you wrote the skin file to.

I don't see any reason why this wouldn't work.

Hi,

I guess it will work even without creating temporary file. Just specify your executable file in firsts parameter of LoadSkin.

oleg wrote: I guess it will work even without creating temporary file. Just specify your executable file in firsts parameter of LoadSkin.

Tried to add the .cjstyles file to the resources, but in CXTPSkinManagerResourceFile::Open the resource can not be found, the following line failes.

HRSRC hRsrc = FindResource(m_hModule, strFilePath, _T("TEXTFILE"));

I guess the problem is that the TEXTFILE resource is wrapped in the executable.

My executable \ cjstyles (executable) \ TEXTFILE resource

Then I've tried to add the "SkinFramework/Styles/Office2007/Office2007.rc" file to my resources, which results in "file not found: res\Office2007_Normal.ini" errors.

Should I add the cjstyles or rc file to my resources?

ABuenger wrote: Tried to add the .cjstyles file to the resources, but in CXTPSkinManagerResourceFile::Open the resource can not be found, the following line failes. HRSRC hRsrc = FindResource(m_hModule, strFilePath, _T("TEXTFILE")); I guess the problem is that the TEXTFILE resource is wrapped in the executable. My executable \ cjstyles (executable) \ TEXTFILE resource Then I've tried to add the "SkinFramework/Styles/Office2007/Office2007.rc" file to my resources, which results in "file not found: res\Office2007_Normal.ini" errors. Should I add the cjstyles or rc file to my resources?

Excuse any typos since I'm typing this in on the fly...

// CString m_strSkinTempFilename
HRSRC   hResource;
HGLOBAL   hGlbl;
LPVOID   hLockedResource;
long   l;
FILE   *fTemp;

if ( (hResource = FindResource(AfxGetInstanceHandle(), MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_MYSKINRESOURCE), _T("TEXTFILE")) ) != NULL)
{
 if ( (hGlbl = LoadResource(AfxGetInstanceHandle(), hResource) ) != NULL)
 {
  l = SizeofResource(AfxGetInstanceHandle(), hResource);
   if ( (hLockedResource = LockResource(hGlbl)) != NULL)
   {
    if ((fTemp = _fsopen(m_strSkinTempFilename, "wb+", SH_DENYWR)) != NULL)
    {
     fwrite(hLockedResource, 1, l, fTemp);
     fclose(fTemp);

    }
    DeleteObject(hLockedResource);

   }
   DeleteObject(hGlbl);
   
 }
 DeleteObject(hResource);

}

...

CXTPSkinManager()->LoadSkin(m_strSkinTempFilename);

...

Don't forget to delete the tempfile at shutdown, and you'll want to add some additional code to confirm that the skin was actually loaded.

Oleg's suggestion may work too, however I'm not familiar with what he's talking about, so I'll leave it up to him to assist you.

Thanks, but I would like to avoid to write the skin to a temporary file because that requires write permissions.

I hope Oleg has a suggestion how to load it directly from the EXE.

Just specify your executable file in firsts parameter of LoadSkin.

Wouldn't that have the disadvantage that something that is already loaded is loaded (duplicated) again?

CXTPSkinManager::SetResourceFile looks promising.

Ok, I've added the Office2007.rc to my rc2 file, added "..\Source\SkinFramework\Styles\Office2007" to my include folders and it compiles and it loads the skin, but the result is not what I've expected:

That doesn't look like Office 2007 for me

ABuenger wrote: Thanks, but I would like to avoid to write the skin to a temporary file because that requires write permissions.

Your users don't have write permission to their temp folder?  Okay, I'll let Oleg assist from here.

I've figured out why it didn't worked, the problem is in CXTPSkinManager::LoadSkin

 BOOL bOffice2007 = CString(lpszResourcePath).Find(_T("Office2007")) > 0;
 m_pSchema = bOffice2007 ? new CXTPSkinManagerSchemaOffice2007(this) : new CXTPSkinManagerSchemaDefault(this);

I had to add "Office2007" to my executables name and then it worked fine.

Please change, overload or whatever it with CXTPSkinManager::LoadSkin(LPCTSTR lpszResourcePath, LPCTSTR lpszIniFileName, XTPSkin skin=xtpSkinOffice2007) or whatever...

Yes, right, please just change code now. For next vresion we will add SetShema method to allow you manually set CXTPSkinManagerSchemaOffice2007 class.

Thanks for this point.

oleg wrote: For next vresion we will add SetShema method to allow you manually set CXTPSkinManagerSchemaOffice2007 class.

Thanks, that would solve my problems, but is still not perfect. Users should be able to browse for *.cjstyles and *.msstyles skins, so wheter at compile nor at runtime I know the schema of the file.

Hello,

CString(lpszResourcePath).Find(_T("Office2007"))  will still present, so if user browse it it will use correct Schema....

I guess we will add parameter to ini file what shema to use.

oleg wrote: CString(lpszResourcePath).Find(_T("Office2007"))  will still present, so if user browse it it will use correct Schema....

That assumes that the file will not be renamed. What if the user renames Office2007.cjstyles to renamed.cjstyles?

Adding the schema to the ini file would be the best idea.