Re: where's the documenation for UxTheme.dll?

Hi Jialian and Joseph

thank you for the links and for the suggestions - both were helpful. I need
to spend time looking at the links to see if it's all there, but it looks
promising. I will probably follow Joseph's suggestion too.

I also found some stuff on the Windows SDK in the same location (or
nearby) - i.e. at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms717422.aspx

But this left me still a bit confused. The documentation here seems fairly
minimal. Is there some other stuff somewhere else? In the "Welcome to the
Windows SDK section" (on the this page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms717358.aspx ) it says

The documentation contains API reference topics and feature overviews for
the programming elements available in Windows. To locate the topics you
need, you can use Search, Index, the Table of Contents, or the
navigational topics in the documentation viewer. <<

What is the documentation viewer? Where do I find that?

I have MSDN library 2008. Do they mean that? That doesn't seem to have
anything about the SDK except what I can browse on the web.

Simon


""Jialiang Ge [MSFT]"" <jialge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Good morning Simon. Thank you for using Newsgroup support service! My name
is Jialiang Ge [MSFT]. It's my pleasure to work with you in this thread.

Your question is about the documentation for the "Visual Styles" APIs. I
looked up the MSDN library, and found that the APIs and the definition of
the function parameters are documented at the page

Visual Styles Reference
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb773178(VS.85).aspx

, and its sub-nodes. Is this what you are looking for?

Take the function GetThemeBackgroundContentRect as an example,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb773375(VS.85).aspx
Two of its parameters are
int iPartId,
int iStateId,
According to the doc, iPartId specifies the part that contains the content
area, and iStateId specifies the state. Their values should be within this
table:

Parts and States
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb773210(VS.85).aspx

Apart from the above documentation that can help us understand the APIs,
Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]'s approach based on visual trial or test may
also
be a good approach to understand the meaning of the parameters.

Last but not least, our newsgroup support service can also serve as a good
resource whenever you need helps for a specific API or parameter. If you
are not sure about any API/param, please feel at ease to post a new
thread,
we [MSFT] will help you with all efforts.

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