wxWidgets displays everything incorrectly (windows)

[mariuszp]

I'm using MinGW, and have compiled wxWidgets 2.8.12 successfully. However, there was an error while compiling corelib_treectrl.cpp so I just had to add the 2 lines:

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#define NMTVDISPINFOWW NMTVDISPINFOW
#define NMTVDISPINFOAA NMTVDISPINFOA

near the top and it compiled, so I installed it. So I went on to compiling my game engine that uses wxWidgets for its editor. I passed `wx-config --cflags` to g++ and `wx-config --libs' to the linker (also g++). It compiled correctly. However, when I ran it, a lot of things were wrong.

All widgets looked like the old Windows 98 style, instead of the proper theme (including message boxes, etc), the main window did not maximize dispite the request, and all of my dialog boxes drew incorrectly - all the widgets were near the top-left corner of the window, about 8x4 in size. None of these problems occured on Ubuntu.

Can anyone point to what could be causing this? I'm sorry that I don't know what parts of my code are relevant to you.

[eranif]

You should have a .rc file in your project and compile it with windres

Create a new file name it resources.rc and put this content into it:

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#include "wx/msw/wx.rc"
1 24 "wx/msw/wx.manifest"

Compile it like this:

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windres -i resources.rc --use-temp-file --define __WXMSW__ --define _UNICODE --include-dir C:/wxWidgets-3.0.0/lib/gcc_dll/mswu --include-dir C:/wxWidgets-3.0.0/include --define WXUSINGDLL    -o resources.rc.o

Ofc, replace these paths "C:/wxWidgets-3.0.0/lib/gcc_dll/mswu" with the actual paths from your machine

when linking your project, make sure you also link against resources.rc.o
Doing this and you will have the "aero" look controls

Eran