Change style of scrollbars

[bmelt]

Using MFC9 AppWizard, I created an MDI application with CEditView. Use of
CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007::SetStyle(CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007::Office2007_LunaBlue);
changes styles of all components, but scrollbars keep system style
Is there something else special in MFC9 to change scrollbars style?

[Jialiang Ge [MSFT]]

Hello bmelt

The Office visual styles are encapsulated by the
CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007 class, but the data that controls how the
styles are rendered are actually stored in resources within the MFC90(u)(d)
DLLs. You can examine all of the data by looking at the folders with color
names (Aqua, Black, Blue, Silver) under Microsoft Visual Studio
9.0\VC\atlmfc\include folder:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\atlmfc\include\Aqua
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\atlmfc\include\Blue
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\atlmfc\include\Black
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\atlmfc\include\Silver

There is an XML file named Style.xml for each of these, and a complex
hierarchy of properties within them. The CTagManager class is used by the
CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007 class to load the XML resources from the MFC
DLL and examine the values of various properties.

The style of Scrollbar is not defined in the above packages, thus you do
not see Scrollbar have the Office 2007 style.

Although you cannot modify the resources within the MFC DLLs, you have some
other options to customize the style:

a) Create a new class derived from CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007 which sets
the m_bNcTextCenter to false in an override of OnUpdateSystemColors
(probably after calling the base class version) before OnDrawNcCaption or
OnDrawNcText will be called.

b) Create a customized style, including the style.xml resource, and load it
from a class derived from CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007. The source code of
the CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007 class (and its base classes
CMFCVisualManagerOffice2003, CMFCVisualManagerOfficeXP, and
CMFCVisualManager) can be used as a reference to see how the style
resources are used to dictate the way the window elements are drawn. If you
do so, you can create your own style resources and embed them into your
module and load the m_hinstRes in your override of OnUpdateSystemColors so
that your resources will be used.

c) Create a new class which inherits CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007 and
override OnNcPaint method.

I'm connecting to the product group of the CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007, and
will try to give you their comments.

Regards,
Jialiang Ge
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[bmelt]

Hi Jialiang,
Thank you for explanation. It sounds like Microsoft missed this feature in
MFC9 and we have to implement it ourselves.
I'm waiting for comments from the product group of the
CMFCVisualManagerOffice2007, they will be helpful hopefully.

Regards,
Boris

[Jialiang Ge [MSFT]]

Hello Boris

I'm attempting to connect to product group. I will update you as soon as I
get their comments. Thanks for your patience.

Regards,
Jialiang Ge (jia...@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[Crag Metz [MSFT]]

Hello bmelt

This feature will be considered in future releases of MFC.

Thanks for your suggestion.

Crag

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