Hi all, I just found this on msdn http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/commctls/userex/themes.asp
and http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/xptheming.asp I think it does tell us that we need commctl version 6 in order to get theming, but we are using version 5.0 implementation. The above article also mentions how to use commctl version 5 with uxtheme, but we need some concrete theming/non theming examples inorder to fix the notiious WMGETTEXT bug that came with unicodification of controls. I will be searching msdn for more info bye, Vijay