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Make WinXP themes work with windows resources
| author | Frank Benoit <benoit@tionex.de> |
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| date | Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:33:19 +0100 |
| parents | e0ea5a76da07 |
| children | f9012ceeafea |
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| 38 For dmd linker 'optlink' there is the option SUBSYSTEM which defines if the executable | 38 For dmd linker 'optlink' there is the option SUBSYSTEM which defines if the executable |
| 39 shall be a console or windows application and the minimum required windows version (4=win95,5=win2000,6=vista) | 39 shall be a console or windows application and the minimum required windows version (4=win95,5=win2000,6=vista) |
| 40 -L/SUBSYSTEM:windows:5 | 40 -L/SUBSYSTEM:windows:5 |
| 41 Without this option, DWT renderes some controls not correctly. Eg. table headers are not shown. | 41 Without this option, DWT renderes some controls not correctly. Eg. table headers are not shown. |
| 42 | 42 |
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| 44 WinXP Theming and Controls | |
| 45 ========================== | |
| 46 With WinXP it is required to make windows use a manifest. | |
| 47 There are several ways to make this manifest available. | |
| 48 1.) Place the manifest file in the same directory where the .exe is. | |
| 49 E.g. | |
| 50 application.exe | |
| 51 application.exe.manifest | |
| 52 2.) Link the content of the manifest to the application as a windows resource. | |
| 53 3.) Have another program that uses resource injection to put the manifest into the application | |
| 54 4.) Let the application write the manifest to a an external file and load it. | |
| 55 This had problems in the past, some applications on some machines did not load images. | |
| 56 | |
| 57 1. .. 3.) Seems to work reliable. | |
| 58 | |
| 59 * Using 2. | |
| 60 compile the dwt.rc/dwt.exe.manifest files with rcc.exe from the digitalmars to create the dwt.res. | |
| 61 rcc dwt.rc | |
| 62 link the resulting dwt.res with the -L/rc:dwt.res | |
| 63 | |
| 43 Changes/Additions to SWT | 64 Changes/Additions to SWT |
| 44 ======================== | 65 ======================== |
| 45 o MessageBox can be instantiated without parent. Use the Ctor "this( int style )", | 66 o MessageBox can be instantiated without parent. Use the Ctor "this( int style )", |
| 46 calling the other ctors will still force a non-null parent. | 67 calling the other ctors will still force a non-null parent. |
| 47 o Allow null argument for | 68 o Allow null argument for |