Hi Carlos,

This is not really an answer on your question, but I suggest you to contact Alex Grigorjev member #019702, because he has a lot of experience in this topic.


>I am creating a progressbar class (Yet Another ProgressBar Control), that uses API functions to generate a progressbar, using CreateWindowEx and msctls_progress32 as lpClassName.
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>In Windows XP, if a theme is applied, the progressbar is drawn using the active theme. If no theme is applied, the progressbar is drawn the "classic" way, and properties like BackColor and BarColor apply.
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>In VFP9, I would like to support the setting of the Themes property for a form, and the setting of SYS(2700), so if themes is disabled, I want the progressbar to be drawn with no theme.
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>I cant find a way to do that, my progressbar is always drawn using the active Windows theme.
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>I have been reading about uxtheme.dll but I don't know if that is the path to follow.
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>Any ideas or suggestions as to how to easily draw a comctl32.dll based windows control with no theme using API?
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>Carlos