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Title: Button style
Post by: jcarr on July 02, 2007, 02:30:31 AM

Hey...

This is really beginning to fustrate me. I am using WinXP's silver theme...
How do i get my button which looks like this:
http://sigma.ulmb.com/TEMP/BTN_OK_NORMAL.jpg (http://sigma.ulmb.com/TEMP/BTN_OK_NORMAL.jpg)
to look like this:
http://sigma.ulmb.com/TEMP/BTN_OK_XP.jpg (http://sigma.ulmb.com/TEMP/BTN_OK_XP.jpg)

Thanks in advance for any help..

jcarr

Title: Re: Button style
Post by: jcarr on July 02, 2007, 04:08:47 AM

Never mind.... I got it now.
If you want to know, add a new manifest to ur rc file and insert this code:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
<assemblyIdentity
	version="1.0.0.0"
	processorArchitecture="X86"
	name="CompanyName.ProductName.YourApplication"
	type="win32"
	/>
<description>Program Description here</description>
<dependency>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity
	type="win32"
	name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls"
	version="6.0.0.0"
	processorArchitecture="X86"
	publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df"
	language="*"
	/>
</dependentAssembly>
</dependency>
</assembly>

However I am now having trouble with adding an icon to a dialog made through my rc file.
It just takes on the regular default icon and i want it something different. Thanks ;D

jcarr

Title: Re: Button style
Post by: JohnF on July 03, 2007, 07:24:29 AM

Is the dialog the apps main window ?

John

Title: Re: Button style
Post by: jcarr on July 05, 2007, 11:10:51 AM

No.. they are a popup of the main app window. i noticed that blank app icon is only there when i use the WS_EX_LAYERED extended style. Then using conventional API to change the dialog does nothing. Is there a way to specify an icon using the *.rc file, as that is what the dialog is created from.

Thanks heaps

jcarr

Title: Re: Button style
Post by: JohnF on July 05, 2007, 11:45:48 AM

If the dialog has been created with a class you can specify the icon when the class is registered.

example.

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wc.hIcon = LoadIcon( hinst, MAKEINTRESOURCE( ID_ICON ) );
wc.hbrBackground 	= (HBRUSH) ( COLOR_BTNFACE + 1 );
wc.lpszClassName 	= "nameofclass";
RegisterClass( &wc );

If the dialog has not been created with a class you will have to set the icon manually like so. The best place would be in WM_INITDIALOG in the Dialog Func.

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HICON hIcon = LoadIcon(gInst, MAKEINTRESOURCE(1));
SendMessage(hwndDlg, WM_SETICON, (WPARAM)ICON_SMALL, (LPARAM)hIcon);

John

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