WEL Control Style Changes in Finalized Project

[hcater]

This is a bit of an odd one where I have two different styles appear in my project when it comes to WEL controls, i.e. buttons, list boxes etc., where in debug mode (frozen project) the controls appear in what I would describe a Windows 10 style, but once I finalize a project they come out looking something a bit more akin to a Windows 7 project.

I'm using the latest EiffelStudio 18.07 on a Windows 10 64 bit machine with the Microsoft C compiler.

This has been happening for a while and since I've switched to the newer EiffelStudio going back to 17.05 for me (previously on 6.5 before that) and I just haven't brought it up till now.

So I guess the question is if there is any way to have the WEL controls display in a consistent style between frozen and finalized and preferably in the new Windows 10 style?

Thanks,

Hubert

[Larry Rix]

You need a "manifest" file. See here.

We had the same issue with an application we were building a few years back.

Here is the manifest file we used:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> 

<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0"> 

<assemblyIdentity version="1.0.0.0" processorArchitecture="*" name="Jinny.Jloft" type="win32" /> 

<description>Jloft</description>

<dependency> 

<dependentAssembly> 

<assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" version="6.0.0.0" processorArchitecture="*" publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df" language="*" /> </dependentAssembly>

</dependency>

</assembly>

Try substituting your app name with ours and see what you get.

[Hubert Cater]

Hi Larry,

Thanks for this and I'm a little stuck on where to put this manifest file as it looks like one is generated by Eiffel already for the W_CODE and F_CODE folders.  If I try and replace the one in the F_CODE folder it is replaced by EiffelStudio when I finalize the project.

Any further help would be appreciated, thanks.

Hubert

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[Larry Rix]

Place the manifest file in the same directory as the EXE. Windows knows to find it.

[Hubert Cater]

Ah yes of course, thank you, works like a charm now :)

On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 12:33 PM Larry Rix <lar...@moonshotsoftware.com> wrote:

Place the manifest file in the same directory as the EXE. Windows knows to find it.

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