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Tabcontrol (Form Designer)

At 08 NOV 2011 05:53:53PM Barry Stevens wrote:

Is there a RawStyleBit setting to make a Tabcontrol stay grey and not white when the form runs.

At 09 NOV 2011 05:41AM Carl Pates wrote:

Hi Barry,

I assume you have visual styles enabled for your OI application? If you want turn them off for an individual control you can do so by calling the SetWindowTheme() Windows API function.

If you're using the Windows API library we posted on our blog you can simply do this:

call winAPI_SetWindowTheme( ps_Get_Property( tabControl, "HANDLE" ), "", "" )

Regards

Carl

At 09 NOV 2011 01:55PM Barry Stevens wrote:

»I assume you have visual styles enabled for your OI application?

I have often seen reference to this, what exactly does this refer to.

Thanks for api tip.

At 10 NOV 2011 05:46AM Carl Pates wrote:

Hi Barry,

Another common term for it is "XP Themes" - i.e. the visual styling introduced with Windows XP (Luna Blue, Homestead Olive and Metallic Silver). This can be turned off for individual controls using the method I mentioned, or it can also be removed for the entire OI app by deleting the OINSIGHT.EXE.MANIFEST file in your OI directory. If you do this your OI app will use the old Windows 9x/NT/2000 look and feel (aka. the Windows Classic theme).

More documentation can be found here.

I actually wrote an article on all this for one of the old SENLs (Vol4 Issue 2 IIRC) but it's not on our website at the moment - if you drop me a line I'll email you the source doc for it if you want it.

Regards

Carl

At 10 NOV 2011 04:41PM Barry Stevens wrote:

Thanks for this helpful information

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