In windows when you click on an icon on your desktop, the icon darkens with a shade that is based on your windows theme that is currently used. I have a custom control that displays an image. I would like to have the same functionality as the windows icon click. How do I obtain the same result in WinForms by selecting my custom control...
This may sound crazy, and i didnt believe it until i saw it for myself. The vertical scroll bar does not scroll when you click in the space between the scroller or the arrows. You have to drag the bar to get it to scroll. This only happens in the ugly default theme (not windows classic). The scroll bar has some heavy javascript behin...
I have a wxPython which works perfectly on window xp theme but on switching to 'classic theme' rich text cntrl comes up without border. I can enable border for classic theme but for that Q1. I need to know if classic theme is enabled. Q2.I am also not sure how many different theme could be there which may break my app appearance. so w...
I am trying to retrieve the background and text color of the taskbar and/or my applications main window. It turned out, that Windows 7 does not return the correct colors. If i i.e. switch to a pink theme, Windows 7 still returns light blue for window caption although thats not true. This happens using GetSysColor(COLOR_ACTIVECAPTION); ...
Hi all. I'm trying to make my application force a theme - this is straightforward as shown here: http://arbel.net/blog/archive/2006/11/03/Forcing-WPF-to-use-a-specific-Windows-theme.aspx However, I don't know what theme I'm using now. I'm using the Windows XP default theme, whatever that may be. That article says It's important ...
Maybe a way to alter the colors locally (as in application dependant)? A background color of eclipse is white, the same white of windows' active window background color. If I change the color on the theme, eclipse changes to the color. I want to change this software's color without changing the whole theme (because then every program g...