I tried this briefly but didn't see any changes. Where does this need to be called? Just anytime from within the app?

I didn't see any change with the tree or listviews, status or progress bars.

+++ Rick ---

>Rick,
>
>> It doesn't work with themes so now we have these cool XP style forms in 8 and a toolbar that stuck in 90's. Yeah, looks matter.
>
>Does this code chunk help with the theme aware problems of the common controls?
>
>

*typedef struct tagINITCOMMONCONTROLSEX {
>*    DWORD dwSize;             // size of this structure
>*    DWORD dwICC;              // flags indicating which classes to be initialized
>*} INITCOMMONCONTROLSEX, *LPINITCOMMONCONTROLSEX;
>#define ICC_LISTVIEW_CLASSES   0x00000001 && listview, header
>#define ICC_TREEVIEW_CLASSES   0x00000002 && treeview, tooltips
>#define ICC_BAR_CLASSES        0x00000004 && toolbar, statusbar, trackbar, tooltips
>#define ICC_TAB_CLASSES        0x00000008 && tab, tooltips
>#define ICC_UPDOWN_CLASS       0x00000010 && updown
>#define ICC_PROGRESS_CLASS     0x00000020 && progress
>#define ICC_HOTKEY_CLASS       0x00000040 && hotkey
>#define ICC_ANIMATE_CLASS      0x00000080 && animate
>#define ICC_WIN95_CLASSES      0x000000FF
>#define ICC_DATE_CLASSES       0x00000100 && month picker, date picker, time picker, updown
>#define ICC_USEREX_CLASSES     0x00000200 && comboex
>#define ICC_COOL_CLASSES       0x00000400 && rebar (coolbar) control
>#define ICC_INTERNET_CLASSES   0x00000800
>#define ICC_PAGESCROLLER_CLASS 0x00001000   && page scroller
>#define ICC_NATIVEFNTCTL_CLASS 0x00002000   && native font control
>
>set procedure to convertapi.prg additive
>
>declare integer InitCommonControlsEx in comctl32.dll string @ tagINITCOMMONCONTROLSEX
>
>lcBuffer = ToLong( 4 + 4 ) + ToLong( ICC_TREEVIEW_CLASSES  )
>
>InitCommonControlsEx( @lcBuffer )
>
>
>* ConvertAPI.prg 08-Oct-97
>
>* these functions convert to/from internal binary storage
>
>function ToWord( pnNumber )
>local lnMSB, lnLSB
>lnMSB = int( pnNumber / 256 )  && most significant byte
>lnLSB = pnNumber % 256  && least significant byte
>return chr( lnLSB ) + chr( lnMSB )
>
>function ToLong( pnNumber )
>local lnMSW, lnLSW
>lnMSW = int( pnNumber / 65536 )  && most significant word
>lnLSW = pnNumber % 65536  && least significant word
>return ToWord( lnLSW ) + ToWord( lnMSW )
>
>function FromWord( pcBuffer )
>return asc( substr( pcBuffer, 2, 1 ) ) * 256 + asc( left( pcBuffer, 1 ) )
>
>function FromLong( pcBuffer )
>return FromWord( substr( pcBuffer, 3, 2 ) ) * 65536 + FromWord( left( pcBuffer, 2 ) )
>

>
>It needs to be called with the proper set of flags for the controls being used, it does seem to work for getting the Treeview themed.