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ActiveX in IE. Dialog Box not showing XP Visual Style

I have an ActiveX control in IE (7). When it shows a dialog box, the dialog box is not showing in XP visual style. I have tried embedding manifests to no avail. Anybody got any idea? by the way, the dialog boxes were implemented using wtl. ...

TAB control background in ATL App, XP styles

I have an ATL application with a dialog containing a TAB control. The App uses a common controls manifest. Under XP with visual styles, the tab control background is a different color than the dialog and the controls (mostly checkboxes), so it looks quite ugly. Screenshot How can I fix that? ...

Windows XP Style: Why do we get dark grey background on static text widgets?

We're writing Windows desktop apps using C++ and Win32. Our dialog boxes have an ugly appearance with "Windows XP style": the background to the static text is grey. Where the dialog box background is also grey, this is not a problem, but inside a tab control, where the background is white, the grey background to the text is very notic...

How do i create winxp style controls

Hi guys, I am trying to make my controls look as cool as xp theme enabled controls like gradient fill background in container controls and colour thames support etc I am not finding a way to start. from where can i start doing it? I am trying to do it in vb.net Edited: EnableXpVisualStyles() I found it to enable visual styles but d...

Skin Dialogs when using XP Themes?

I have been skinning dialogs by using the WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC, WM_CTLCOLORBTN messages as such:- case WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC: case WM_CTLCOLORBTN: hdc = (HDC)wParam; hwndCtl = (HWND)lParam; SetTextColor(hdc,RGB(0xff,0xff,0xff)); SetBkMode(hdc,TRANSPARENT); pt.x = 0; pt.y = 0; MapWindowPoints(hwndCtl,_hwnd,&pt,1); x = -pt.x; y...