Here is the screenshot on Windows XP.
El mié, 09-09-2009 a las 17:05 +0200, Christian Hoff escribió: > Hi folks, > > as you may have noticed, old Gtk# versions (< 2.12.8) did not use XP's > visual styles. Later versions have a workaround: they call > System.WIndows.Forms.Application.DoEvents which seems to enable XP's > theming. This workaround is far from optimal as it created a Winforms > dependency. > > That's why I tried to integrate the code of Application.DoEvents into > Gtk# directly. As I do not have a Windows XP machine to test, I cannot > verify if it works. > I have attached an assembly and it's source code (change extension to > .exe; GMail does not allow executables as attachments) that can be run > with any Gtk# 2.12 version on XP. It uses a tweaked Gtk.Application > class with a new mechanism to enable theming. > > I would really appreciate some feedback from the community as to whether > the new approach works (that is, if the attached application appears > with visual styles enabled). Just reply with a screenshot of the running > app on XP if you're not sure what I mean :-) . > > > Christian > > Mike Kestner wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 09:15 +0200, Christian Hoff wrote: > > > > > >>> In Windows I use 'mkbundle' [1] > >>> > >> We should probably put that code in a try-block. What do you think, Mike? > >> > > > > My question would be, what do you do in the catch block? > > > > The winforms reflection thing is a huge hack, we know that, and the > > poster is tripping over it because of using mkbundle instead of > > depending on mono or .Net. > > > > We could also take the stance that if somebody wants to do this sort of > > minimal packaging, they are required to add an artificial ref to swf to > > ensure it gets bundled. But they won't have any clue that's required if > > we just silently fallback to unthemed windows when we can't find swf. > > > > According to Robert Jordan on this thread, it's a PeekMessage/GetMessage > > loop that's required to happen before the first handle is created. We > > should try a pinvoke solution like that and see if it works so we can > > remove the hack altogether instead of figuring out ways to make the hack > > more palatable. > > > > Mike > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gtk-sharp-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/gtk-sharp-list -- Milton Pividori Blog: http://www.miltonpividori.com.ar Jabber ID: [email protected] GnuPG Public Key: gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 0x663C185C
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