Re: MFC and common controls 6

From:

David Wilkinson <no-reply@effisols.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 07:42:52 -0500

Message-ID:

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David Webber wrote:

One of my more adventurous testers decided to investigate what happened if
he edited the manifest resource in my exe to make common controls 6 display
buttons etc in XP/Vista style. He tempted me to follow suit.

Two problems with standard Windows/MFC80 things:

1. Tool bar buttons gave a face-colour which matches the menu bar and
docking areas, but around the buttons (including the gripper bar) the colour
is much lighter. This is very obvious with standard XP colours; less so
with Vista, but still there.
[They are standard MFC-style 16-colour buttons.]

2. Buttons drawing icons (BS_ICON style) have the new pretty style under
Vista, but are in the old style under XP (and do not match buttons with
text).

Any ideas?

[There a few other problems here and there where I have done "fancy things"
(like a spin button which *usually* displays 2,4,8,16,...) and I will need
to start using themed owner-draw buttons, but I thought I'd try and get the
bog standard stuff sorted out first.]

David:

Is this a VC6 application? If so take a look at

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;843490

I don't use dockable toolbar in my apps so I never noticed this when I
added common control manifest to my VC6 apps.

I do see this gripper effect in my "themed" version of VC6 itself (I
added external manifest). But I have to tell you I had never noticed
this before, though I have been using VC6 like this for over a year.

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP