>Maybe this can help:
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>"Using UxTheme Manager to Render a Control Whose Parts Do Not Have a Visual Style
>If you have a control that is not one of the common controls and you want it to look appropriate on a computer that has visual style files installed, you can take one of the following approaches.
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>The basic approach is to use the system metric colors. Most system metric colors are set when a visual style file is applied. "
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>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/xptheming.asp


Yes, I read this, but it does not seem to be much of help. I think the major problem is that I do not get a proper Handle back form OpenThemeData() and so can not query the other methods. I have seen VB-Code that does just something like that in VFP it does not seem to work without a trick