[Gtk-sharp-list] Windows theme not applied

[Dimitar Dobrev]

This worked, thank you very much.


Peter Johanson-2 wrote:
> 
> I recently solved this by putting the following snippet of SWF before
> any of the Gtk# initialization stuff:
> 
> Forms.Application.EnableVisualStyles ();
> Forms.Application.DoEvents ();
> 
> This ensured that on the Windows level, the visual style stuff was
> enabled properly, which was then picked up by the WIMP theme properly.
> 
> Why this is necessary, and why this works without the above code for
> *some* applications is *beyond* me, but my only guess is some codepaths
> touching Windows API before WIMP is initialized, and others only after?
> 
> See if the above helps?
> 
> -pete
> 
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:55:30AM -0700, Jupe wrote:
>> 
>> Another confirmation here. Tried all the 2.12 installers. Problem on XP
>> and
>> Vista. But not when starting from visual studio.
>> Running the same app from bin/Debug does show the problem. Strange. 
>> I tried to narrow it down:
>> 
>> Tried all possible solution you all mentioned, But nothing works in my
>> situation.
>> 
>> I copied gtk-wimp 0.7.0 over the installer and the problem disappeared.
>> But the menu's where not drawn correctly where selected/hovered.
>> 
>> It seems like a problem with detecting if wimp can use the windows
>> theming
>> api.
>> The strange thing is that it is working within Visual Studio. Enviroment?
>> 
>> Tomboy is working correctly and that uses the exact same gtk-sharp
>> installation.
>> Looked through the sourcecode but could not directly find a difference to
>> my
>> code.
>> Maybe the developers from Tomboy know more?
>> 
>> Did someone already found a solution?
>> 
>> 
>> 
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