Controls Style: Resource View vs Running App

Hi,

I just finished my first C++ Application but there is still one thing I can't get rid of:

In Visual Studio 2008 I see Vista styled controls. After compiling and running the application they look old fashioned. (See Screenshot)

Does someone have an idea what could cause this?

I'm going to assume you're using visual studios of some genre (obviously), go to project propertys -> Config Props -> linker -> manifest file -> generate manifest, make sure that is set to yes.

Thank you so much!

I am clueless about manifests, but found out that I have to do this:

Code:

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#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")

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Another entry on my C++ learning list ;)

By the way: While Vista has shown at least anything, XP has not.

You'll need to call InitCommonControls and link to comctl32.lib to get them to show up.

I already noticed a few hours ago that my last post was a little too enthusiastic. On Vista it ran well. On XP, however, it was still the same (no controls). After messing around with some DLLs I only got an error that there is no procedure _except_handler4_common in the linked library msvcrt.dll.

Finally calling InitCommonControls (and linking the lib) works fine! Thanks! Both of you!

Code:

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INITCOMMONCONTROLSEX commonControls;
InitCommonControlsEx(&commonControls);

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