Re: Force a Windows XP look

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Hi all,

thanks for the comments.

I just figured out how to solve my problem. Indeed, as mentioned by
Joanna, I will force the look by the use of a skin. A third party tool,
Application Styling, from Infragistics, will work perfect for me. I will
be able to force the GUI with nice round controls, etc.

In my opinion, the Media Player, is exactly doing what I want to do.
Offering the user a nice looking GUI.




Chris <no@xxxxxxxx> wrote in news:44D35B00.8070507@xxxxxxxx:

Maurice wrote:
Hi all,

I have an application, designed in Visual Studio 2005, which will run
mainly on Windows XP computers.

If I run the application on a Windows XP computer having the Windows
XP Theme selected the controls look nice rounded, etc. just like in
Windows XP.

But if I run the application on a Windows XP computer having the
Windows Classic Theme selected the controls look 'classic' again.

Is there a way to also use the Windows XP look on a computer having
the Windows Classic Theme running?



Thanks,

Regards,
Maurice

Why would you want to? The concept is that the person choose their PC
to look the classic way so your program should conform to that way.


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