I dont know how office 2007 msgbars look. But in office 2003 or in any other software the different msgs on the msg bars are not painted as depressed like in fivewin. Mostly they are painted at different portions of the Status Bar or shown in "Parts" of Status Bar. They look as msgs between two vertical lines.
Personally I prefer that look. Still I prefer to use FW msgbar and msgitems than FW Status Bar and parts because MsgItems have a lot more functionality than the Parts of StatusBar provided by FW.
I am using a minor change to the TMsgItem.Prg, to paint (optionally) MsgItems like parts of statusbar. With this change my software's msgbar appears like any other software purchased and used by the users.
Here is a sample screen shot 2007 style:
Screen shot Non 2007 style
Here is the code
IF StatBarLook()
WndBoxIn( hDC, 0, nLeft - 8, ::oMsgBar:nHeight - 1, nLeft - 7 ) // Statusbar Parts look
ELSE
WndBoxIn( hDC, 3, nLeft - 2, ::oMsgBar:nHeight-5, nLeft + ::nWidth - 6 ) // Original Depressed Look
ENDIF
The code I adopted is from some post I had seen long back in this forurm. I dont remember the author.
We have implemented support for Office 2007 look on the msgbar too. No need to modify your source code, simply add 2007 as a new clause:
