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Hello all,

How can I change dynamically the UI style and menu options (animations, tooltips, ...) for all the opened window of my application ?

I want to do this for my Options dialog who have an apply button.

The code I use refreshes the window but labels on CExtStatusBar and toolbars buttons don’t refresh their styles.

How can I perform this ?

Best regards.

The menu options are available as static properties of the CExtPopupMenuWnd class: g_bMenuWithShadows, g_bMenuExpanding, g_bMenuDelayExpanding, g_bMenuHighlightRarely, g_bMenuShowCoolTips, g_bMenuExpandAnimation, g_bUseStretchOnExpandAnimation, g_bMenuLargeIcons and g_DefAnimationType. The CExtToolControlBar also has its own static properties, which are g_bToolbarLargeIcons, g_bToolbarScreenTips and g_bToolbarShortcutKeysOnScreenTips. You can change these properties directly because they are public C++ class properties.

To change the active theme, please invoke the following code:

    VERIFY(
        g_PaintManager.InstallPaintManager(
            new CExtPaintManager 
            // or new CExtPaintManagerXP 
            // or new CExtPaintManagerOffice2003 
            // or new CExtPaintManagerStudio2005
            )
        );

After changing the CExtToolControlBar::g_bToolbarLargeIcons property and after re-installing the paint manager, do not forget to re-calculate the layout of all windows in your application. In case of frame window based applications, this can be done with the following code:

    pMainFrame->RecalcLayout();
    pMainFrame->RedrawWindow( NULL, NULL,
        RDW_INVALIDATE | RDW_UPDATENOW | RDW_ERASE
            | RDW_FRAME | RDW_ALLCHILDREN
        );
    CExtControlBar::stat_RedrawFloatingFrames( pMainFrame );
    CExtControlBar::stat_RecalcBarMetrics( pMainFrame );