docs/msw/winxp.txt

   1 Microsoft Windows XP Support in wxWindows 2.3.2
   2 -----------------------------------------------
   3
   4 Windows XP introduces the themes (called "visual styles" in the Microsoft
   5 documentation) in Windows world. As wxWindows uses the standard Windows
   6 controls for most of its classes, it can take advantage of it without
   7 (almost) any effort from your part. The only thing you need to do if you
   8 want your program to honour the visual style setting of Windows XP is to
   9 add the manifest file to your program (this is not at all specific to
  10 wxWindows programs but is required for all Windows applications).
  11
  12
  13 For your convinience, below is an example manifest. It should be put in a
  14 file called "yourapp.exe.manifest" and put in the same directory where
  15 "yourapp.exe" resides. Alternatively, you can include the manifest in your
  16 applications resource section. Please see the MSDN documentation at
  17
  18 http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/xptheming.asp
  19
  20 for more details.
  21
  22
  23 Here is the example manifest which you can put into controls.exe.manifest
  24 file to test theme support using the controls sample:
  25
  26 --- cut here ---
  27 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
  28 <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
  29 <assemblyIdentity
  30     version="0.64.1.0"
  31     processorArchitecture="x86"
  32     name="Controls"
  33     type="win32"
  34 />
  35 <description>Controls: wxWindows sample application</description>
  36 <dependency>
  37     <dependentAssembly>
  38         <assemblyIdentity
  39             type="win32"
  40             name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls"
  41             version="6.0.0.0"
  42             processorArchitecture="X86"
  43             publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df"
  44             language="*"
  45         />
  46     </dependentAssembly>
  47 </dependency>
  48 </assembly>
  49 --- cut here ---
  50
  51
  52 There are a few minor problems with theme support in wxWindows currently
  53 which will be fixed in the next releases:
  54
  55 - the buttons with non-default colours are owner-drawn and thus don't
  56   follow the visual style look but always have the default 3D look of
  57   the previous Windows versions - don't change the buttons colours if
  58   you want them to look nicely under Windows XP
  59
  60 - wxCheckListBox control doesn't have the same appearance as the native
  61   checkboxes in Windows XP
  62