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Microsoft Windows XP Support from wxWidgets {#plat_msw_winxp}
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Windows XP introduces the themes (called "visual styles" in the Microsoft
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documentation) in Windows world. As wxWidgets 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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wxWidgets programs but is required for all Windows applications).
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wxWidgets now includes manifest resources in wx.rc, so it should be enough to
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include "wx/msw/wx.rc" in your application's resource file and you get
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XP look automatically. Notice that MSVC 2005 and later embed manifest in the
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executables it produces and wxWidgets doesn't use its own manifest when using
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this compiler. And if you don't want to use wxWidgets manifest with another
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compiler you may define wxUSE_NO_MANIFEST as 1 prior to including wx/msw/wx.rc.
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Finally, if all else fails you may always use a manifest manually. For this you
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need to create your own manifest file and put it in a file called
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"yourapp.exe.manifest" in the same directory where "yourapp.exe" resides.
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Alternatively, you can include the manifest in your applications resource
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section. Please see the MSDN documentation at
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb773175
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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: wxWidgets 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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