[Mono-winforms-list] Enabling VisualStyles in the 1.1 profile

[Jonathan Pobst]

George is our SoC student working to make a theme that uses VisualStyles 
so we can get a more-native look in winforms.  He isn't writing an 
application that wants to use VisualStyles on the 1.1 platform.  :)

Jonathan


Rafael Teixeira wrote:
> That won't work in .NET 1.1.
> 
> If an application needs Visual Styles while running on 1.x profiles, it 
> should either:
> 1) demand version/profile 2.0 as a dependency.
> -or-
> 2) have it's own implementation of that code (you can reuse Mono's 
> MIT-licensed code, if needed)
> 
> AFAIR, VisualStyles is scattered all around  winforms controls, so you 
> need to build an wrapping layer, extending them with that feature.
> 
> :|
> 
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 2:19 PM, George Giolfan <georgegiolfan at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:georgegiolfan at yahoo.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     I am implementing a theme that uses the VisualStyles
>     API. I assume it will need to support the 1.1 profile
>     so I will need a way to call the VisualStyles code
>     from the 1.1 version of the theme code even if
>     VisualStyles is a 2.0 feature. Please review the
>     attached patch. Basically it attempts to always
>     compile the code but make it public only on 2.0.
> 
> 
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