Valery Wrote: > Recently I spent a few hours to find a way to enable a new styles of Windows > XP controls from the code (without manual created external manifest files, > resource files, ...). The only solution I found in DFL library and it looks > quite complicated. > > Maybe should create that function at the level of the compiler or linker?
As far as I know, the only way to get the newer common controls library is to use an assembly manifest, be it external or compiled as a resource. I haven't looked into DFL but I'm pretty sure it simply generates the proper manifest resource and link it in the executable.
