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Topic: RibbonBar + SkinFramework

Posted By: apuhjee
Subject: RibbonBar + SkinFramework
Date Posted: 15 May 2007 at 11:01am

I'm finding it very difficult to achieve a complete solution for Office 2007 look-and-feel. At first, I thought that perhaps the combination of SkinFramework without frame rendering (using Office2007.cjstyles) and RibbonBar.EnableFrameTheme() would work...

Main form looks great, but child windows and dialogs end up bastardized (normal system frame).

If it were just a matter of dialogs I have control over, this would be no big deal. As another user pointed out, I could create an invisible skinned form that acts as a controller. Where this falls apart is calls like this from the Main form:

CommandBars.ShowCustomizeDialog(3);

I'm really curious why are these child windows (and system MessageBox) not themed the same as the parent form??? Seams very incomplete to me.

If anyone else is trying to do the same and experiencing frustration, speak up.

If anyone else is trying to do the same and experiencing success, please help out.

Regards ~ jp

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Posted By: apuhjee
Date Posted: 15 May 2007 at 6:18pm

I guess it's not entirely correct to say "office 2007 look-and-feel" since, as Oleg pointed out, Office 2007 still uses standard dialogs for its file operations, etc...

They do, however, use a themed dialog for 'Help'. That's the look we are going for.