Within an msstyles file the primary specification is basically a unicode INI file within one of the resources (well, there are a few ini files for different parts of the theme)
Currently I'm extracting the ini file from resources into a temp file, and then using GetPrivateProfile* to retrieve values..which is a lot of work :) the fact its an ini file is really meaningless as I basically just enumerate every section/key and load it into an internal table.
I would like to remove the need to dump the ini file into the file system then call a (large) number of GetPrivateProfile* functions..but I also don't want to duplicate ini file processing
One possible solution would be to call the PROFILE_* functions (which are located in kernel/profile.c) directly which seem to work in a way that would make this very easy, but overall sounds like a very bad idea...
I think I answered my own question, but feedback would be very welcome.
On October 15, 2003 08:09 pm, Kevin Koltzau wrote:
One possible solution would be to call the PROFILE_* functions (which are located in kernel/profile.c) directly which seem to work in a way that would make this very easy, but overall sounds like a very bad idea...
Well, it is, it breaks DLL separation if you invoke them outside kernel, which is Not Good (TM). Using the standard API is almost always better.
Can you trace the native uxtheme and see how Microsoft did it? They should know the best way, after all.
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