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Menu style under Vista doesn't look like a Vista menu even with the manifest

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Kostas Michalopoulos

Not a very serious issue, but it breaks consistency with most other applications and you can do nothing about it (i think). Lazarus programs' menu doesn't seem to use Vista's style (or any style at all) and looks like a Windows 95 menu. Is this due to some sort of custom drawing or something like that? Shouldn't this be optional only if needed and use the default menu functionality when not needed (most cases)?

Here is a picture showing the problem by comparing a Lazarus and a Turbi Delphi window:

http://gimme.badsectoracula.com/delphilazarusmenustyle.png

Anyone knows why this happens and how to fix it?

Kostas "Bad Sector" Michalopoulos

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Bogusław Brandys
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Kostas Michalopoulos pisze:

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Not a very serious issue, but it breaks consistency with most other applications and you can do nothing about it (i think). Lazarus programs' menu doesn't seem to use Vista's style (or any style at all) and looks like a Windows 95 menu. Is this due to some sort of custom drawing or something like that? Shouldn't this be optional only if needed and use the default menu functionality when not needed (most cases)? Here is a picture showing the problem by comparing a Lazarus and a Turbi Delphi window: http://gimme.badsectoracula.com/delphilazarusmenustyle.png Anyone knows why this happens and how to fix it? Kostas "Bad Sector" Michalopoulos _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

IMHO either new manifest is required or new classname or new parameters for TMainMenu creation.

I found this : http://www.scriptol.org/vistalook/vistalook.html Maybe you could check it ?

Boguslaw

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to Kostas Michalopoulos: Not a very serious issue, but it breaks consistency with most other applications and you…

Kostas Michalopoulos pisze:

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Not a very serious issue, but it breaks consistency with most other applications and you can do nothing about it (i think). Lazarus programs' menu doesn't seem to use Vista's style (or any style at all) and looks like a Windows 95 menu. Is this due to some sort of custom drawing or something like that? Shouldn't this be optional only if needed and use the default menu functionality when not needed (most cases)? Here is a picture showing the problem by comparing a Lazarus and a Turbi Delphi window: http://gimme.badsectoracula.com/delphilazarusmenustyle.png Anyone knows why this happens and how to fix it? Kostas "Bad Sector" Michalopoulos _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Ok.I found something which may be interesting and possible to include into LCL also.

http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/delphivista.html

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Boguslaw Brandys

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