uxtheme.dll

[Roderick Colenbrander]

Ofcourse I want uxtheme.dll implemented since it is a very cool new dll but I 
think a problem will be that it needs changes in various parts of Wine. 
Mainly in the user and common control area. Microsoft releases two sets of 
comctl32 dlls. One of them is meant for backwards compatibility. Because of 
this I think Wine will need two dlls and it might be needed to maintain two 
dlls. :(

Because of all this I said that it might be something for after Wine 1.0. This 
dll could later be reused for theming Wine and that atleast was something we 
planned to do behind 1.0, right?

Roderick

On Tuesday 30 September 2003 10:25, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Roderick Colenbrander wrote:
> >I hope you know what you will begin with. (For the ones that don't know
> >uxtheme.dll is the dll that takes care of all theming on WinXP and it is
> > the dll that dlls like comctl32 and all others use for theming)
> >
> >Some time ago I checked out uxtheme.dll a bit and it seems that it needs
> >changes all over Wine. As I understand it WinXP ships with two sets of
> >comctl32.dll and friends. One is the "old" version and one is a new
> > uxtheme aware version. The uxtheme aware version contains lots of changes
> > and uses uxtheme for theming. To use uxtheme you need to add uxtheme
> > support to the dlls that need it which looks like a huge job.
>
> It does.
>
> > Perhaps this is something post Wine-1.0?
>
> Why? This seems liks something that can be done incrementally. Kevin is
> interested in doing it. Is there any reason to wait? Kevin should be
> aware of what he's getting himself into, of course, but otherwise it's
> his call. That's what free software development is all about.
>
> >Roderick Colenbrander
>
>           Shachar