INTRODUCTION: I am creating tab control with child dialog boxes as pages. I have Visual Styles enabled via #pragma comment. I have also called InitCommonControlsEx and #pragma comment( lib, "com...

I am trying to use a TSaveDialog in Delphi XE6: if not SaveDialog1.Execute(0) then Exit; The call immediately returns false, without displaying any dialog. I traced it down to the act of creati...

I've got no experience in C++ and Win API so sorry if this question is nooby. I've got DLL where I create some components, MessageBox for example. I added pragma comment to enable visual styles and...

I am programming strictly in C and WinAPI, no C++ or C#. I am a beginner and just learning to draw controls etc. The thing is that when I create Windows or other controls like Command Buttons, they...

I am trying to make a radio button control with a transparent background using only Win32 when themes are enabled. The reason for doing this is to allow a radio button to be placed over an image an...

How i can render text like this(simple listview)? Trying the code like this renders no ellipsis: TextRenderer.DrawText(_listGraphics, anItem.Text, GetItemFont(anItem), textRec, Color.FromKno...

Microsoft's visual styles for winforms have always befuddled me. I am trying to have a Panel sit next to a TreeView and just have the same VisualStyle border. As you can see, the TreeView borde...

According to the docs: "If you want your application to use ComCtl32.dll version 6, you must add an application manifest or compiler directive to specify that version 6 should be used if it is ava...

Using C# winforms, i want to create custom controls that looks like the real ones. There are a lot of classes that can be used to draw controls that looks like the real ones: ControlPaint, VisualS...

I want to draw a custom TabControl with custom functionality. To do this, i inherited the Panel class and overrided OnPaint method to draw with TabRenderer class. The problem is that TabRenderer ...