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From: Gautier write-only <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: GNAT and Windows XP Manifest
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:37:28 -0700 (PDT)
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On 10 juil, 12:57, Hibou57 (Yannick Duch=EAne)
<yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Solved.
>
> Explanation: althought message boxes does not belongs to the
> ComCtl32.dll shared library, it is mandatory to invok
> InitCommonControls.
>
> Platform DSK documentation says:
>
> > To create a manifest and enable your application to use
> > visual styles.
>
> > Link to ComCtl32.lib and call InitCommonControls.
> > Add a file called YourApp.exe.manifest to your source tree that
> > has the XML manifest format.
>
> If InitCommonControls is invoked during application initialization,
> the manifest is handled correctly.
>
> Perhaps that with common controls version 6, the message box is now
> part of the ComCtl32.dll library (this is the sole reason I can
> imagine).
>
> This is thus not specific to GNAT, but would be the same with any
> others, like Janus, etc.

Thanks for the info, I was just wondering how to make some GWindows
applications use these "new" visual styles.
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