MinGW Vista native Look&Feel Topic is solved

[Ankou]

Hi,
I just migrated my VC++ Project to MinGW and recognized, that I've lost lots of Vistas native Look&Feel.
When I compile it with VC++ everything looks like Vista, but when I use MinGW, most things look like the classic style, just some things look like Vista:


left: VC++, right: MinGW

But! When I compile the wxWidgets template project, everything works and looks fine.
Does anybody has an idea how to fix this?

[max.t]

Try to put hte line

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#include "wx/msw/wx.rc"

into the project's rc-file. This enables the native look and feel for XP and most likely for Vista, too (I can't check for Vista).

[Deschamps]

You could also use stand-alone .Manifest files for your apps. Besides, you can embed the manifest file in your executable compiling a custom .rc file (or adding those lines to the one you're using in your project).

Attached, there is a .zip file containing two sample files (generic.Manifest and generic.rc) related to that, using the code defined in the wx.rc file.

Regards.