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Offer Har Mar 24, 2008 - 8:43 AM

Dear Support,


I tried to use this paint manager, and I see that most UI components do not egt skinned, for example the scroll-bars looks like windows 2000, the non-client of a dialog remain in their dull XP look.


Is this the way it should look, or should I do something beside calling:


 


g_PaintManager.InstallPaintManager(RUNTIME_CLASS(CExtPaintManagerStudio2008));


Thanks,


Ron.

Technical Support Mar 26, 2008 - 2:14 PM

The CExtPaintManagerStudio2008 paint manager class is very similar to CExtPaintManagerStudio2005. The differences are as follows:

1) On Windows XP the CExtPaintManagerStudio2008 paint manager class simply draws a bit different popup menu and provides semi-transparent hover based markers like Visual Studio 2008 does.

2) Under Windows Vista it provides more different UI look and completely new docking markers.

These paint managers do not affect scroll bars nor the window non-client areas. If you need skinned Windows XP/Vista scroll bars, then you should not forget to include the manifest resource.