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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:16

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"JD" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> I want to add Theming to a TStringGrid and TInplaceEdit
> decendent where the grid draws it's headers themed and
> the edit draws a themed ellipse, drop down and up/down
> glyph.

Good luck.  That would require essentially re-writing all of the
TStringGrid's drawing code from scratch.  And believe me, TStringGrid has a
lot of custom drawing going on.

> I know that I need to check if XP and if theming is enabled
> but haven't found any examples of anything to get me started.

Then you aren't looking very hard.  There is a whole chapter in MSDN that
shows how drawing code is supposed to take themes into account.

    Using Windows XP Visual Styles

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/commctls/userex/cookbook.asp

Look at the "Using Visual Styles with a Custom Control" section.


Gambit

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