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On the latest FWH release, with the latest xHarbour, running in Vista. On a dialog, my buttons are the old boxy type although the rest of the dialog box sets to the Windows Vista theme. These are regular dialog buttons not bitmap buttons. Why not the rounded theme buttons ?

Example:

In the program code:
REDEFINE BUTTON ID 710 of oDiw ACTION ( oInv:save( ), oDiw:update( ), oLbxin:setfocus( ) );
MESSAGE "Save any changes made to the current inventory item"

And in the RC:

CONTROL "&Save", 710, "Button", WS_TABSTOP, 580, 96, 50, 12

Previously we had themed buttons ...

Tim

NOW THAT I LOOK MORE CLOSELY I also see that the edit fields are also the boxy squared off version. Didn't we have all of these working cleanly with themes in the past ( rounded like in all the other programs ) or am I just imagining that ?

Tim,

Please check that you are including WindowsXP.Manifest file in your resources, to get themes support

Thats the first thing I checked ... and it is there. The Dialog box and background is fine. The edit fields are dark boxes and the buttons are square boxes ...

OK ... in the .RC file there is also a reference to the manifest ... or their should be. However, I had updated the file using the Pelles resource compiler, and it eliminated that reference.

I added it in with a text editor and got my themes back.

Its a shame we don't have a stable resource compiler, 32 bit, Vista compatible.

Tim

There was an earlier post on a resource ( free ) editor from Resedit .. I have not used it in production .. here is the link if you would like to download and try.

http://www.resedit.net/

Rick Lipkin
SC Dept of Health, USA