visual-styles

I've created a DeskBand toolbar and I want to display a button on the toolbar that has the style visual style as a taskbar button. In .NET you can use the VisualStyleRenderer to render the Taskbar BACKGROUND, but there's way to render a button. Are there any Win32 API's I can use to draw the button using Visual Styles rather than emulating the look of the button via drawing paths or images? I know this topic is old but,...: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.visualstyles.visualstyleelement.taskband.flashbuttongroupmenu.aspx So far, I have only been able to find a

If I create a button in the Win32 API, the default conrol theme looks like a Windows 95/98 button. I remember in the past the Microsoft forums told me how to get the XP style, but I don't recall how to do this. Is there a way to programatically or manually change the control themes in a Win32 application? Thanks. You want to Enable Visual Styles by adding a manifest dependency to the common control 6 assembly to your applications manifest. If you use DevStudio it should be as simple as adding the #pragma directive from the linked page: #pragma comment(linker,"\"/manifestdependency:type='win32'

I've got no experience in C++ and Win API so sorry if this question is nooby. I've got DLL where I create some components, MessageBox for example. I added pragma comment to enable visual styles and it does not work (and it shouldn't as I know from this answer: windows 7 style for combobox on internet explorer toolbar, how? Dll code(omit export and so on): #include "stdafx.h" #include "my-dll.h" #include <Windows.h> #pragma comment(linker,"\"/manifestdependency:type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='*' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df'

I am programming strictly in C and WinAPI, no C++ or C#. I am a beginner and just learning to draw controls etc. The thing is that when I create Windows or other controls like Command Buttons, they have Windows Native look. Take a look at this: But in Windows 7, the command buttons look like this: Now, how do I get command buttons in my program to look like that. Is it even possible? I am following this tutorial, for reference: http://zetcode.com/gui/winapi/ Thanks. You enable visual styles for your app by providing an XML manifest, either as a separate file or as an embedded resource. See

According to the docs : "If you want your application to use ComCtl32.dll version 6, you must add an application manifest or compiler directive to specify that version 6 should be used if it is available." Notice the logical OR above? So what is this mysterious compiler directive? I've got a native Win32 C++ application that is wholly contained in a single .cpp file. There are no resource files, manifest files, etc. I'd like to keep it that way, but I would also like to use visual styles. If you're using Visual Studio, you can add this line to your stdafx.cpp for example: #pragma comment