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Topic: Applying Themes to Dialogs

Posted By: gibbo
Subject: Applying Themes to Dialogs
Date Posted: 01 February 2007 at 6:07am

Hi All,

I've started converting an existing VC6 application to use the Ribbon Bar. So far so good.

The problem is that now, that the dialog boxes that are displayed look dated and old compared to the new interface. So my question is, is there an easy way to apply the current theme to any dialog or property sheet?

If so how would I go about it..

Many thanks

Wayne

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Gibbo

Replies:

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 01 February 2007 at 9:05am

Hi,

Check samples from SkinFramework folder, may be it will work for you.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: gibbo
Date Posted: 02 February 2007 at 4:12am

Hi,

The SkinFramework looks good. But will it work with the Ribbon theme and the themes it has, I.E. Blue, Black, Silver, Aqua ?

Thanks

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Gibbo

Posted By: gibbo
Date Posted: 05 March 2007 at 6:58am

Any Ideas???

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Gibbo

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 05 March 2007 at 7:27am

Hi,

Yes, it will work.

Blue theme in Office2007.cjstyles and black and silver in Vista.cjstyles

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: gibbo
Date Posted: 05 March 2007 at 8:13am

Firstly thanks for replying..

Sorry I don't quite understand what you mean, do you have a code fragment?

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Gibbo

Posted By: gibbo
Date Posted: 05 March 2007 at 8:57am

Ok, did some searching.. Now understand a bit more :D

I have to use the following:

XTPSkinManager()->LoadSkin(pTheme->strResourcePath, pThemeInfo->csIniFileName);

Is there anyway that the Styles can be loaded from a resource instead of a file?

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Gibbo

Posted By: ABuenger
Date Posted: 05 March 2007 at 1:33pm

gibbo wrote:

Is there anyway that the Styles can be loaded from a resource instead of a file?

Add #include "SkinFramework\Styles\Office2007\Office2007.rc" to your .rc2 file.

You may have to add ...\Source\SkinFramework\Styles\Office2007 to your source directories.

Then load the skin from your executable:

CString sExeName = AfxGetApp()->m_pszExeName;
sExeName += _T(".exe");

LoadSkin (sExeName, ...)

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Codejock support

Posted By: jkaufmann
Date Posted: 05 March 2007 at 4:24pm

I have a problem with applying themes to dialogs, so I figured this was the best thread to post...

I have a dialog running in a CFormView running great except that whenever I right click on a CEdit, the menu that comes up is the old and outdated style. The menu is the default one that just has Cut/Copy/Paste/etc. I'd rather not have to override the menu popup w/ my own because this issue is in every CEdit in my application. Any suggestions?

OK, I just looked and the same unskinned popup menu shows up for the CEdit's that are embedded into CXTPPropertyGrid too.

Posted By: gibbo
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 4:56am

Hi ABuenger,

Thanks for the information. A few small tweaks to the Skin Resources and I now have the Ribbonbars and skins working

Cheers

Gibbo

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Gibbo

Posted By: gibbo
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 5:15am

Just a thought, why isn't there an example of how to incorporate skins and ribbonbars.. Think it would help a lot of newbies..

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Gibbo