I have been doing some investigation on theming. I have been looking into comctl32. One of the issues is that windows version 5 of the control has not theming and uses SxS so that applications that use version 6 will get themed controls. Currently comctl only has one version and applies theming regardless of the version the application requests. I have spoken on the Wine mailing list and the only person that replied did not want to use SxS. I assume to make it easier to maintain(though i don't understand why common parts cant share the same files and build 2 dlls). I was wondering what React OS developers think is the best choice.
The second issue is that if comctl32 version 6 is loaded in windows it takes control of components that are usually in user32. Someone said this was called ( window class redirection). I can't really find any information on it. Though isn't this just registering the class except from comctl32? or does this cause a race condition(with the last one one loaded taking control)? is this is how "window class redirection" is different? Also the last thing is. Should sub classing be used? You should be able to load another window proc method even from user32 and call it when it is suitable from new control. I would imagine this could cause issues when the default procedure can't handle something as the new control would. Any advise would be much appreciated. _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
