On 5/15/12, Gor Gyolchanyan <gor.f.gyolchan...@gmail.com> wrote: > But what do windows resources have to do with the manifests?
You use a resource file to load a manifest into the executable. There are a couple of examples here: https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/DWinProgramming/tree/master/Samples/Extra/VisualStyles https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/DWinProgramming/tree/master/Samples/Extra/VisualStyles2 https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/DWinProgramming/tree/master/Samples/Extra/ThemedSimpleWakeUp https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/DWinProgramming/tree/master/Samples/Extra/ThemedWakeUp enable-theme.xml is the manifest, and resource.rc just references this xml file. The resource file is compiled into a .res file, and this file is then passed directly to DMD. For your own purposes try to just take the .rc/.res/.xml files, pass .res to dmd when compiling your app and see if the visual styles work for you. The last example loads the manifest dynamically, based on a sample from the DFL library.
