Changing character encoding changes appearance of dialog buttons

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I've changed my character encoding from unicode to multibyte, which has changed the appearance of form buttons from an aesthetically pleasing, windows xp style "round edge" to an aesthetically unpleasing windows 95 style "square edge".

How can I change character encoding without changing the appearance of buttons

Thanks in advance

einaros

See http://www.0ok.de/page/articles/1.txt.

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Einaros,

I had hoped you could clarify a few things. Firstly, what is a manifest file Secondly, are you sure this applies to me This project was created in visual studio 2005. All that has changed is the encoding.
Regards,
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einaros

Well it's somewhat of a guess, but usually when people are having trouble enabling the XP look&feel, the manifest is the problem. The manifest is essentially an application configuration, which among other things specifies which dlls are to be used. The manifest described in the linked article enables the common controls which have the XP look&feel, so it would be a natural place to start. If it doesn't fix your issues, other options can be considered.

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Einaros,

Ok, I'll give it a shot. Since this occurs whenever I change the encoding of any wizard generated app, I'd expect it to be a fairly well documented problem, but it isn't.

Perhaps it just happens to me

I'll let you know how I get on,

Thanks

einaros

I wouldn't over analyze it prior to trying the manifest approach

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Sounds like good advice :-)

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I tried to follow the tutorial, but ran into trouble.

I've added the following code to the head of "myapp.cpp":

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#include "commctrl.h"

INITCOMMONCONTROLSEX icce;

icce.dwSize = sizeof(INITCOMMONCONTROLSEX);
icce.dwICC = ICC_WIN95_CLASSES;
InitCommonControlsEx(&ccex);

I've changed my linker's settings. It has an additional dependency on ComCtl32.lib .

I've added a file to my project, "myapp.exe.manifest", which contains the XML from the tutorial.

I'm getting lots of compile time error messages, among them:

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error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '.'

and

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error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int

and

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error C2371: 'icce' : redefinition; different basic types

Which suggest that, for whatever reason the compiler doesn't recognise the custom datatypes. I don't know why I get this error:

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error C2365: 'InitCommonControlsEx' : redefinition; previous definition was 'function'

Your help would be much appreciated, as always,
Regards,
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einaros

Where did you add the code you pasted above Make sure you add it to your main or winmain function, and not to the global scope, if that's what you've done.

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I have added it to global scope.

How can I access winmain I understand it's hidden away in the MFC somewhere.

einaros

You can't add a lone function call to global scope. Add all four lines to your entry function, meaning the first function your application runs.

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That's helped. Now I only have one error message:

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error C2065: 'ccex' : undeclared identifier

Since there is only that single reference to ccex in the tutorial, I don't know what it is.

Please advise.

Your help is much appreciated.

einaros

Replace "ccex" with "icce".

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It worked. Thanks A lot einaros. As I said, your help is greatly appreciated!

einaros

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It worked. Thanks A lot einaros. As I said, your help is greatly appreciated!

No problem