using themes on windows xp

[Wings]

Hello,
I am trying to make a xp themed dialog. I have succeeded in theming the dialog itself; however, all the controls on it do not take the background color of the dialog. In other words I have turned the dialog blue with the use of themes but all the controls on the dialog still have a thin default grey border. How do I get them to change to the same color as the dialog?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

 

[tmiketx]

are the dialog controls custom or standard? if they are custom, you should be having them send WM_CTLCOLOR* messages to their parent (ostensibly the dialog box itself) to try to get the correct background brush. (You should also handle WM_ERASEBKGND and zero the background brush field in the control's window class)

If they are standard controls, then perhaps they have a static background color; make sure that the controls are marked as "transparent". In a program i'm currently working on, i notice that my dialogs change to conform to a new theme immediately

 

[dc2000]

You may want to use EnableThemeDialogTexture (more info here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...erex/functions/enablethemedialogtexture.asp).

Just be careful when compiling with static linking to UxTheme.lib, as this way it won't work anywhere else but Win XP. Better use dynamic loading with LoadLibrary and GetProcessAddress.