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 emula...
Hi, how do I enable visual styles when my project is a class library and it's being loaded into a program that does not have Application.EnableVisualStyles() set. I have been struggling with this for 2 days now. This is in C# (I've seen some examples for older C++ and some things that may work for VB, but nothing has been clearly laid ...
I can draw a 3D border using ControlPaint.DrawBorder3D, but I get the 'Windows Classic' 3D border. I want to draw the current theme's 3D border - in the default XP theme, this is a 1px blue or gray border. How do I draw that, and how do I get its widths? ...
I've recently started a WinForms project in Visual Studio 2008 and I notice that when I disable a command button, it flattens out the button and leave the text black. This is quite an unexpected change from my experiences in VB6 and VS2005 where the button simply grays itself out. Is there a setting that would allow me to make the disab...
Hello all! I posted a comment to Microsoft that the Dialog Boxes in WPF are not VisualStyle enabled. Joe Castro posted a workaround there which I don't really understand how to achieve, can anyone help? Here is he's response: For app compat reasons applications don't by default use v6 of the system common controls (available since XP...
I have a custom color theme within visual studio which uses a dark background which looks great, however when I copy & paste into Outlook I would like outlook to use the default formatting, is this possible? My current workaround is to simply paste into a single cell table, reset the background color on the text to none and apply a back...
I want to draw a custom TabControl with custom functionality. To do this, i inherited the Panel class and overrided OnPaint method to draw with TabRenderer class. The problem is that TabRenderer working only when visual styles enabled (can be checked with TabRenderer.IsSupported), but what should i do if visual styles disabled? In thi...
In Windows Vista and Windows 7, ToolTips have a new visual style or theme, they are shiny grey metallic. How can I enable the new style for a ToolTip control? Some controls, like ListViews and ToolBars, use the new tooltips automatically, but other tooltips are rendered with the old yellow XP style. I've tried sending an TTM_SETWINDOW...
Using C# winforms, i want to create custom controls that looks like the real ones. There are a lot of classes that can be used to draw controls that looks like the real ones: ControlPaint, VisualStyleRenderer, ButtonRenderer, CheckBoxRenderer, ComboBoxRenderer, GroupBoxRenderer, ProgressBarRenderer, RadioButtonRenderer, ScrollBarRendere...