Vista & MDI
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Hi, I have had a look and can't find an answer to this 'simple' question? Under Vista I have noticed that all child windows in a MDI are framed in "Blue coloured Basic" style... Is there a way to get the shiny glass effect for the child windows? Or atleast get them to have the same colour as their parents? Also is one of the ways MS is trying to stop MDIs... Make them look ugly enough and people will stop using them.. lol
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Hi, I have had a look and can't find an answer to this 'simple' question? Under Vista I have noticed that all child windows in a MDI are framed in "Blue coloured Basic" style... Is there a way to get the shiny glass effect for the child windows? Or atleast get them to have the same colour as their parents? Also is one of the ways MS is trying to stop MDIs... Make them look ugly enough and people will stop using them.. lol
Justin Cobb wrote:
Under Vista I have noticed that all child windows in a MDI are framed in "Blue coloured Basic" style... Is there a way to get the shiny glass effect for the child windows? Or atleast get them to have the same colour as their parents?
Wouldn't that require you to change the color scheme (or theme) being used? Or are you talking about enabling Aero?
"Love people and use things, not love things and use people." - Unknown
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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Justin Cobb wrote:
Under Vista I have noticed that all child windows in a MDI are framed in "Blue coloured Basic" style... Is there a way to get the shiny glass effect for the child windows? Or atleast get them to have the same colour as their parents?
Wouldn't that require you to change the color scheme (or theme) being used? Or are you talking about enabling Aero?
"Love people and use things, not love things and use people." - Unknown
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
That is what I mean... The main window is nicey glassy thanks to Aero, but the children windows are just 'plain' non-glass. I was wondering if there is a way of getting the Aero effect on the children, or atleast picking up the right colours? I guess that by poking around with the WM_NCPAINT-ish messages it could be possible, but not sure how... I haven't really looked into the whole non-client area painting stuff.