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Hello,

In some of your themes (e.g. VS2005, Office2003) disabled menu and toolbar icons look reddish. This applies to the current Prof-UIS 2.81 version and did not appear in Prof-UIS 2.53, for example. How can I make sure that disabled icons always appear grey, regardless of the selected theme?

Thanks for your help and best regards,
Thomas

We can check our code that colorizes disabled icons. Would you send us a couple of screenshots that show the differences between Office and Prof-UIS icons?

We tried to make disabled icons looking as close to those in Microsoft applications as possible. Disabled icons in Office 2003 / Studio 2005 themes are created by converting original normal icons to mono/grayscale color icons and colorizing them. The colorization has different colors on Windows 2000 and different Windows XP desktop themes. It’s not possible to change the colorization algorithm in Prof-UIS 2.81 and earlier versions, but it’s possible to do this in 2.82 which to be released soon. Prof-UIS 2.82 has new virtual methods in paint manager classes for generating disabled icons.

Thanks for your quick reply. I understand what you’re saying, however, I cannot confirm it. My Outlook 2003 (as Office 2003 application) running in standard XP theme shows gray icons when they are disabled, and so does my VS 2005 application running on standard Vista theme as well. I have never ever seen any application at all whose disabled icons appear reddish. Plus, as already said before, your Pro-UIS 2.53 version did not show it either, neither on XP nor on Vista. Anyway, we’ll see how it turns out in your upcoming release.

Thanks again and best regards,
Thomas