Delphi - Windows Aero resources

Question

Anyone have any good resources for Delphi and Windows Aero on 7 or Vista?

We\'re just about to add Windows 7 to our company and want to make sure that our in-house a

Answer 1

We include our own manifest resource because, as far as I am aware, Delphi doesn't include the new manifest additions for Windows 7 (and Vista?). With help from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd371711(VS.85).aspx and here and here:

Create a file "mymanifest.rc" with the single line

1 24 "my.manifest"

and create a file as below called my.manifest

Then add the mymanifest.rc to your project and turn off the 'enable runtime themes' option as this does the same thing (but less flexible). The 'requestedExecutionLevel' section can be altered to suit the UAC needs of the app.

Works for us.