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Button and Tab Colors?

 
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Aslan
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:31 pm    Post subject: Button and Tab Colors? Reply with quote

Has anyone figured out how to change the colors of standard buttons and tabs possibly with API or otherwise?

Currently, my most important question is concerning the TAB element. How can I make the tabs of the tab element change color as the rest of the element can? It seems strange that the you can change the color of the main part of the tab element but not the tab itself.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 6:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can use VDSGUI.dll from Codescript. It's available for dl on vdsworld.com. Works great btw! Smile

and the Advanced Tab Control DSU for tabs

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've tried VDSGUI but DYNACOLOR seems to have no effect on tabs.

Thanks anyway...
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 4:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Neither Advanced Tab DSU nor the DYNACOLOR function of VDSGUI implements custom coloring of tabs(ownerdrawn tabs) due to some obstacles caused by msg handling by the VDS Dialog. However it is possible if one provides a custom tab control in the dll itself but I am busy to do such a thing now.
As an alternative U can simulate Tab control in VDS itself using images if U don't have too many tabs in Ur dialog. I think Pgware implemented one such before VDS had a tab element built into it.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey Codescript...

Ever got my PM from last year about the TAB DSU you did?
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Codescript,

I noticed in your Advanced Tab DSU that you used API to turn off the XP theme on the tab control. How hard would it be to turn on XP Themes for a dialog where the user has XP but the global theme is set to Windows Classic?

I like the way my app looks with an XP theme but I can't tell the end users to use the XP theme just for my app.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't think any app can use XP theme when the Theme services are disabled globally...
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

CodeScript is right, once you switch themes in XP you are bound to the new theme for your application; provided you are not overriding controls/windows with your own owner-drawn controls. Where you would be simulating the design of objects, and handling the repainting, painting and input of data within the control - basically doing everything that Windows does automatically with most controls such as editboxes, buttons etc.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 10:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What controls in VDS are owner drawn and which are not?

Is the Table element or Button element owner drawn?
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Owner-drawn simply means you override the automated drawing/handling of the control away from Windows; allowing you to control how the control looks and acts.

To my knowledge it's very difficult to do this with VDS controls.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just a suggestion...

You can try a eComStation demo cd it runs fast from cd...

http://www.ecomstation.com/democd/
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