XP Themes not woking in an ActiveX control in IE
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I have an ATL ActiveX DLL control & in Internet Explorer, on an XP system with themes enabled - any dialogs that my control displays do not have any themes active! I've themed my EXE projects before with no issues. (manifest resource type=24 id=1, InitCommonControls, comctl32.lib, ect..). But for some reason when I apply the same modifications to my DLL - it doesn't work. The dialogs that I display from the control have a themed non-client area (the caption & 'x' close button), but the dialog client controls are not themed. I attempted to use the theme library (uxtheme.dll) to force the themeing of the dialog & its child controls, but that failed horribly (probably from a lack of understanding the theme lib), the best(???) I was able to accomplish is the removing of the theme from the non-client area. :sigh: Does any one know why my control's dialog doesn't show up as being themed in IE?? Thanks
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I have an ATL ActiveX DLL control & in Internet Explorer, on an XP system with themes enabled - any dialogs that my control displays do not have any themes active! I've themed my EXE projects before with no issues. (manifest resource type=24 id=1, InitCommonControls, comctl32.lib, ect..). But for some reason when I apply the same modifications to my DLL - it doesn't work. The dialogs that I display from the control have a themed non-client area (the caption & 'x' close button), but the dialog client controls are not themed. I attempted to use the theme library (uxtheme.dll) to force the themeing of the dialog & its child controls, but that failed horribly (probably from a lack of understanding the theme lib), the best(???) I was able to accomplish is the removing of the theme from the non-client area. :sigh: Does any one know why my control's dialog doesn't show up as being themed in IE?? Thanks
In a DLL, the manifest should have an ID of 2, not 1. --Mike-- Ericahist | CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | Homepage | 1ClickPicGrabber New v2.0.1! | RightClick-Encrypt Kosh reminded me of some of the prima-donna programmers I've worked with. Knew everything but when you asked them a question; never gave you a straight answer. -- Michael P. Butler in the Lounge
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In a DLL, the manifest should have an ID of 2, not 1. --Mike-- Ericahist | CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | Homepage | 1ClickPicGrabber New v2.0.1! | RightClick-Encrypt Kosh reminded me of some of the prima-donna programmers I've worked with. Knew everything but when you asked them a question; never gave you a straight answer. -- Michael P. Butler in the Lounge
I think I'm missing something else. I tried resource id's 1-16 for my manifest file & it still didn't work :( So as a sanity check I created to following quick ActiveX project in DevStudio6SP5 * File>New>Projects>ATL COM AppWizard * DLL Project, nothing checked, finish * Insert>New ATL Object,Category "Controls", Full Control * ATL Object Wizard Properties > ShortName = TestBob, left everything else as default * Add a WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK handler that displays a simple MessageBox OR if you're lazy & don't want to double click all the time... * Add a Button control to the window in your WM_CREATE handler (be sure to enable m_bWindowOnly) * Added a manifest resource, type 24, id=2 * Added ComCtl32.lib to the linker * In the constructor, added AtlInitCommonControls(ICC_WIN95_CLASSES|ICC_DATE_CLASSES|ICC_USEREX_CLASSES|ICC_COOL_CLASSES|ICC_INTERNET_CLASSES|ICC_PAGESCROLLER_CLASS|ICC_NATIVEFNTCTL_CLASS); Wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything ;P Unfortunatly the buttons are still not themed. :confused: I even added 511 manifests to the project, numbered 1-512. Sort of a buckshot approch. Still no luck. Is there some obsure interface I need to implement? FYI: CPLs (Control Panel Applets) should have a manifest resource of 123
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I think I'm missing something else. I tried resource id's 1-16 for my manifest file & it still didn't work :( So as a sanity check I created to following quick ActiveX project in DevStudio6SP5 * File>New>Projects>ATL COM AppWizard * DLL Project, nothing checked, finish * Insert>New ATL Object,Category "Controls", Full Control * ATL Object Wizard Properties > ShortName = TestBob, left everything else as default * Add a WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK handler that displays a simple MessageBox OR if you're lazy & don't want to double click all the time... * Add a Button control to the window in your WM_CREATE handler (be sure to enable m_bWindowOnly) * Added a manifest resource, type 24, id=2 * Added ComCtl32.lib to the linker * In the constructor, added AtlInitCommonControls(ICC_WIN95_CLASSES|ICC_DATE_CLASSES|ICC_USEREX_CLASSES|ICC_COOL_CLASSES|ICC_INTERNET_CLASSES|ICC_PAGESCROLLER_CLASS|ICC_NATIVEFNTCTL_CLASS); Wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything ;P Unfortunatly the buttons are still not themed. :confused: I even added 511 manifests to the project, numbered 1-512. Sort of a buckshot approch. Still no luck. Is there some obsure interface I need to implement? FYI: CPLs (Control Panel Applets) should have a manifest resource of 123
Ah, I think you also need to
#define ISOLATION_AWARE_ENABLED 1in stdafx.h before all#includes. Check out this article[^] for all the hairy details. --Mike-- Ericahist | CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | Homepage | 1ClickPicGrabber New v2.0.1! | RightClick-Encrypt Actual sign at the laundromat I go to: "No tinting or dying." -
Ah, I think you also need to
#define ISOLATION_AWARE_ENABLED 1in stdafx.h before all#includes. Check out this article[^] for all the hairy details. --Mike-- Ericahist | CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | Homepage | 1ClickPicGrabber New v2.0.1! | RightClick-Encrypt Actual sign at the laundromat I go to: "No tinting or dying."Wow, thanks Michael - that did the trick! I removed my ComCtl32.lib linker entry & the call to InitCommonControls & it still worked! So for future users that are having similar issues, All I needed for my ActiveX control was.. * A valid manifest resource type=24 with an ID=2 * #define
ISOLATION_AWARE_ENABLED 1in stdafx.h before all other #includes (I think that this is the article[^] you ment) Now I just want to know what the heck all this isolation stuff is & why it added 4k to the size of my DLL ;P I'll google for it later.