upgrading common controls v5 to v6
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From: Eduardo on 5 Dec 2009 14:51 David Kaye escribi�: > Dee Earley <dee.earley(a)icode.co.uk> wrote: > >> It's nothing to do with VB5 itself. >> The V5 controls were distributed with VB6 as well. > > Oh, okay. I played with them a little (I noticed that I had both 5 and 6 as > well), and except for a little functionality difference ?? > I didn't see anything > I'd consider an interface difference. What am I missing here? You'll see the difference if you apply the Visual Styles.
From: Dee Earley on 7 Dec 2009 08:12 On 05/12/2009 11:12, David Kaye wrote: > "Nobody"<nobody(a)nobody.com> wrote: > >> This link shows pictures of the classic and XP styles: >> http://www.restuner.com/tour-manifest.htm > > Thanks to you and to everyone else who have pointed me in various directions. > I hadn't realized that the new look was even possible in VB. I'll start > experimenting. Overall it seems to be more trouble than it's worth, but what > the heck. It depends how commercial your applications are. It's very easy to look extremely dated for the sake of adding a manifest and a few code changes. -- Dee Earley (dee.earley(a)icode.co.uk) i-Catcher Development Team iCode Systems
From: Fred on 7 Dec 2009 10:43 After following this thread I tried it and I am satisfied with the results. However I have some problems with the frames captions which are bold and underlined. Those captions are not displayed completely, the endings are missing but the cut captions length is not equal so the problem is not the length of the caption but something else. How to correct that? Also, what do you mean by "a few code changes" ? I added just the manifest. Thanks, Fred "Dee Earley" <dee.earley(a)icode.co.uk> wrote in message news:egwov7zdKHA.6000(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > On 05/12/2009 11:12, David Kaye wrote: >> "Nobody"<nobody(a)nobody.com> wrote: >> >>> This link shows pictures of the classic and XP styles: >>> http://www.restuner.com/tour-manifest.htm >> >> Thanks to you and to everyone else who have pointed me in various >> directions. >> I hadn't realized that the new look was even possible in VB. I'll start >> experimenting. Overall it seems to be more trouble than it's worth, but >> what >> the heck. > > It depends how commercial your applications are. > It's very easy to look extremely dated for the sake of adding a manifest > and a few code changes. > > -- > Dee Earley (dee.earley(a)icode.co.uk) > i-Catcher Development Team > > iCode Systems
From: Dee Earley on 7 Dec 2009 11:38 On 07/12/2009 15:43, Fred wrote: > After following this thread I tried it and I am satisfied with the results. > However I have some problems with the frames captions which are bold and > underlined. > Those captions are not displayed completely, the endings are missing but the > cut captions length is not equal so the problem is not the length of the > caption but something else. Not seen that. maybe a screenshot will help. > Also, what do you mean by "a few code changes" ? > I added just the manifest. InitCommonControls() and a few other things for tab dialog boxes. http://hashvb.earlsoft.co.uk/Visual_themes http://hashvb.earlsoft.co.uk/Tabbed_dialogs#XP_style_tabs -- Dee Earley (dee.earley(a)icode.co.uk) i-Catcher Development Team iCode Systems
From: Fred on 7 Dec 2009 12:00
Here are the screenshots: without manifest: http://www.phonedialerpro.com/Clip1.jpg and with the manifest: http://www.phonedialerpro.com/Clip2.jpg I tried InitCommonControls() but it does not make any difference for me. Thanks, Fred "Dee Earley" <dee.earley(a)icode.co.uk> wrote in message news:%230xG3u1dKHA.2460(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > On 07/12/2009 15:43, Fred wrote: >> After following this thread I tried it and I am satisfied with the >> results. >> However I have some problems with the frames captions which are bold and >> underlined. >> Those captions are not displayed completely, the endings are missing but >> the >> cut captions length is not equal so the problem is not the length of the >> caption but something else. > > Not seen that. maybe a screenshot will help. > >> Also, what do you mean by "a few code changes" ? >> I added just the manifest. > > InitCommonControls() and a few other things for tab dialog boxes. > http://hashvb.earlsoft.co.uk/Visual_themes > http://hashvb.earlsoft.co.uk/Tabbed_dialogs#XP_style_tabs > > -- > Dee Earley (dee.earley(a)icode.co.uk) > i-Catcher Development Team > > iCode Systems |