Form controls appearance on Win XP

[Steven Kang]

Are not the wxWidgets derived form and dialog controls meant to take on the chosen Windows XP theme? On my backup laptop this was the case with all controls both for the Simpol Personal form creation dialogs as well as user-defined ones. On every other machine I have tried (all running Win XP SP3 and with the Windows XP theme), the dialog and form controls have the old “Classic” appearance (similar to the 16 bit Superbase controls). The only exception is the title bar and scroll bars which always assume the XP theme appearance. After a clean re-install of Simpol on my backup laptop, this too has reverted to the boring “Classic” appearance and no amounts of re-installs will correct the problem. Looking at the screenshots in the documentation, this is not a problem confined to the machines I have tested on. Steven

[Michael]

On 06/07/2010 22:44, Steven Kang wrote:
> Are not the wxWidgets derived form and dialog controls meant to take
> on the chosen Windows XP theme?
>
> On my backup laptop this was the case with all controls both for the
> Simpol Personal form creation dialogs as well as user-defined ones.
> On every other machine I have tried (all running Win XP SP3 and with
> the Windows XP theme), the dialog and form controls have the old
> "Classic" appearance (similar to the 16 bit Superbase controls). The
> only exception is the title bar and scroll bars which always assume
> the XP theme appearance.
>
> After a clean re-install of Simpol on my backup laptop, this too has
> reverted to the boring "Classic" appearance and no amounts of
> re-installs will correct the problem. Looking at the screenshots in
> the documentation, this is not a problem confined to the machines I
> have tested on.

This shouldn't be the case. Can you check and see if the
smpwin32.exe.manifest file is present in your bin directory? That is the
file that decides whether the theme is supported or not.

Ciao, Neil

[Steven Kang]

Neil Robinson wrote:

> This shouldn't be the case. Can you check and see if the
> smpwin32.exe.manifest file is present in your bin directory? That is the
> file that decides whether the theme is supported or not.

> Ciao, Neil

No "smpwin32.exe.manifest" file present (only the smpwin32.exe). I have
rolled back previous versions to 1.0 and none installs this file as far as
I can see.

Steven

[Michael]

On 16/07/2010 16:34, Steven Kang wrote:
> Neil Robinson wrote:
>
>
>> This shouldn't be the case. Can you check and see if the
>> smpwin32.exe.manifest file is present in your bin directory? That
>> is the file that decides whether the theme is supported or not.
>
>> Ciao, Neil
>
> No "smpwin32.exe.manifest" file present (only the smpwin32.exe). I
> have rolled back previous versions to 1.0 and none installs this file
> as far as I can see.

That is very strange, I will check the installer script, because I
remeber that being a problem in early releases, but was sure it had been
resolved.

Ciao, Neil

[Michael]

On 22/07/2010 12:13, Neil Robinson wrote:
> On 16/07/2010 16:34, Steven Kang wrote:
>> Neil Robinson wrote:
>>
>>
>>> This shouldn't be the case. Can you check and see if the
>>> smpwin32.exe.manifest file is present in your bin directory?
>>> That is the file that decides whether the theme is supported or
>>> not.
>>
>>> Ciao, Neil
>>
>> No "smpwin32.exe.manifest" file present (only the smpwin32.exe). I
>> have rolled back previous versions to 1.0 and none installs this
>> file as far as I can see.
>
> That is very strange, I will check the installer script, because I
> remeber that being a problem in early releases, but was sure it had
> been resolved.

The manifest files were missing from the installer script. I have now
added them.

Ciao, Neil

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