I was thinking more along the lines of OCX - listview,treeview,toolbar,etc. The only way to theme those is to go to [the old VFP 5] SP5 (COMCTL32). You get XP themes with those, but you loose things like fullrowselect, forecolor and buttonmenus (to mention a few) that we have in MSCOMCTL (SP6)!


>Hi Terry,
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>IMO, "flat" looking controls are the flavor of the month. I'm not sure how "contemporary" the built in controls are in .NET. Try to make a flat looking combobox in .NET! It's not as simple as setting a property like it is in VFP.
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>I also find it frustrating (and strange) that MS made the .NET IDE have a totally different look ("flat menus and controls") which I can't duplicate or create for my own winforms UI. At least it isn't easy to duplicate.
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>OTOH, there are still some controls on the VFP side that don't do "flat" appearances. Example, grids and tabbed pageframes.
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>Just my 2 cents...
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>Mike
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>>It would be nice to get "contemporary" controls with VFP!