Windows 7 theme

[Kenneth Porter]

I just built my app for the first time on Win 7 and it's very flat-looking,
just simple outlines around buttons, with no raised look or drop shadows.
Did I forget to do something to theme the controls?

[Eran Ifrah]

This is usually happens when you don't add .rc file to your application (Windows resource file)
I usually add a single .rc file with this content:

#include "wx/msw/wx.rc" 

1 24 "wx/msw/wx.manifest"

which does the trick for me

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Kenneth Porter <sh...@sewingwitch.com> wrote:

I just built my app for the first time on Win 7 and it's very flat-looking, just simple outlines around buttons, with no raised look or drop shadows. Did I forget to do something to theme the controls?

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[Kenneth Porter]

On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 8:24 AM +0200 Eran Ifrah <eran....@gmail.com>
wrote:

> This is usually happens when you don't add .rc file to your application
> (Windows resource file)
> I usually add a single .rc file with this content:
>
>
>

># include "wx/msw/wx.rc" 

> 1 24 "wx/msw/wx.manifest"
>
>
> which does the trick for me

It looks like I'm not getting the manifest file included, because I'm not
explicitly doing so, and wx.rc only does it for Visual Studio older than
2005. I'll try forcing that.