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Microsoft Windows XP Support in wxWindows 2.3.2
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Windows XP introduces the themes (called "visual styles" in the Microsoft
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documentation) in Windows world. As wxWindows uses the standard Windows
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controls for most of its classes, it can take advantage of it without
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(almost) any effort from your part. The only thing you need to do if you
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want your program to honour the visual style setting of Windows XP is to
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add the manifest file to your program (this is not at all specific to
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wxWindows programs but is required for all Windows applications).
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For your convinience, below is an example manifest. It should be put in a
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file called "yourapp.exe.manifest" and put in the same directory where
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"yourapp.exe" resides. Alternatively, you can include the manifest in your
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applications resource section. Please see the MSDN documentation at
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/xptheming.asp
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for more details.
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Here is the example manifest which you can put into controls.exe.manifest
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file to test theme support using the controls sample:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
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<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
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<assemblyIdentity
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version="0.64.1.0"
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processorArchitecture="x86"
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name="Controls"
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type="win32"
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/>
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<description>Controls: wxWindows sample application</description>
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<dependency>
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<dependentAssembly>
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<assemblyIdentity
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type="win32"
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name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls"
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version="6.0.0.0"
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processorArchitecture="X86"
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publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df"
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language="*"
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/>
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</dependentAssembly>
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</dependency>
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</assembly>
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There are a few minor problems with theme support in wxWindows currently
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which will be fixed in the next releases:
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- the buttons with non-default colours are owner-drawn and thus don't
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follow the visual style look but always have the default 3D look of
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the previous Windows versions - don't change the buttons colours if
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you want them to look nicely under Windows XP
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- wxCheckListBox control doesn't have the same appearance as the native
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checkboxes in Windows XP
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