Re: commctrl: initial button theming support

[Jonathan Wilson]

Frank Richter wrote:
> Frank Richter <frank.richter(a)gmail.com>
> Add theming support. When comctl32.dll is attached to a thread, a CBT
> hook is set up for the current thread which intercepts all window
> creations. There, the class name of the window is checked. In case of a
> known class, the window is subclassed, and the subclass is handling the
> theming-related stuff.
> Add initial theming support for the "Button" class.
> Not that I am any kind of expert here but would it not make sense to 
> implement things the way windows does it? From what I know, windows 
> implements it via activation contexts and manifests.

commctrl: initial button theming support

[Frank Richter]

On 11.07.2005 14:47, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> Not that I am any kind of expert here but would it not make sense to
> implement things the way windows does it? From what I know, windows
> implements it via activation contexts and manifests.

Yes, doing it the exact Windows way would require to implement all that
side-by-side DLL stuff - what you mentioned and probably more - first.
Which requires significant effort.
Doing it with hooks from comctl32 is an approximation of the Windows way
(actually, they re-implement the controls in comctl32 6.0, we just
partially) that works quite well - here and now.

-f.r.