suggestion: Get native uxtheme and native common controlls working on WINE and ReactOS

[Jonathan Wilson]

Is such a thing possible or not?
i.e. getting uxtheme, the existing themes and the common controls dll 
(various versions of it) working on ROS or Wine fesable?

[Kevin Koltzau]

On Tuesday 11 November 2003 05:26 am, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> Is such a thing possible or not?
> i.e. getting uxtheme, the existing themes and the common controls dll
> (various versions of it) working on ROS or Wine fesable?

It is not possible to get native uxtheme from an XP installation working under 
wine.
However I am currently working on a uxtheme.dll implementation for wine that 
will support loading native WinXP themes, which when finished I'm sure could 
be used by ROS.

[Steven Edwards]

Hello Kevin,
--- Kevin Koltzau  wrote:
> It is not possible to get native uxtheme from an XP installation
> working under 
> wine.
> However I am currently working on a uxtheme.dll implementation for
> wine that 
> will support loading native WinXP themes, which when finished I'm
> sure could 
> be used by ROS.

We have a uxtheme.dll that is being developed in ReactOS cvs also that
supports loading native WinXP themes and we have a theme dumping
program. You are welcome to look at the code and discuss the work with
our developer KJK:Hyperion. I cannot help with sharing this code with
ReactOS and Winehq as this developer wishes to remain under a
Pseudonym. I would much rather get a working implementation going in
Winehq and use your uxtheme.

Thanks
Steven

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[ros-kernel] Re: suggestion: Get native uxtheme and native common controlls working on WINE and ReactOS

[KJK::Hyperion]

At 17.20 12/11/2003, Steven Edwards wrote:
> We have a uxtheme.dll that is being developed in ReactOS cvs also that 
> supports loading native WinXP themes

ha! I wish. Nope, mine is a complementary effort. It's a fake UxTheme API 
that actually draws in the classic Windows style, to make the future 
transition to a fully-themed user32 a bit less painful. I happily leave the 
implementation of the compositing engine to someone else
> and we have a theme dumping program.

most of the code is there, but it requires an elaborate workaround to 
actually work. I'm not sure why, I think it has to create at least a window 
before UxTheme stops hiding themes from it