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FlyingIsFun1217:
Simple question (I hope): When building my project with wxWidgets, it does not fully support the windows theme being used. I know that to change this in wxDev-C++, all you had to do was open project options and click a box that said 'Support Windows XP Themes'.

How can I do this within Code::Blocks?

Thanks!
FlyingIsFun1217

FlyingIsFun1217:
Apparently thats what the Windows XP 'Look-n-Feel' plugin does.
Is that the best way to theme it?

Thanks!
FlyingIsFun1217

Biplab:
Latest Revision of wizard does that job. Check it once.

raph:
Hi,

if you don't want to have to supply an extern manifest file, have a look here:

--- Quote from: wxMSW-2.8.0/docs/msw/winxp.txt ---Windows XP introduces the themes (called "visual styles" in the Microsoft
documentation) in Windows world. As wxWidgets uses the standard Windows
controls for most of its classes, it can take advantage of it without
(almost) any effort from your part. The only thing you need to do if you
want your program to honour the visual style setting of Windows XP is to
add the manifest file to your program (this is not at all specific to
wxWidgets programs but is required for all Windows applications).

wxWidgets now includes manifest resources in wx.rc, so it should be enough to
include "wx/msw/wx.rc" in your application's resource file and you get
XP look automatically. If it doesn't work, follow the instructions below:
...

--- End quote ---

So just add a file called resource.rc to your project:

--- Code: (resource.rc) ---#include "wx/msw/wx.rc"
--- End code ---

Biplab:

--- Quote from: raph on February 03, 2007, 06:46:08 pm ---
--- Code: (resource.rc) ---#include "wx/msw/wx.rc"
--- End code ---

--- End quote ---

As I've posted earlier, It's already available in the wizard since Rev 7. Check it.  :)

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