I did a bit more digging and in some really old notes I have this:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Explorer]
"QVGA"=dword:0 ; 0=Win9x look, 1=WinXP look
I take this to mean that if "QVGA" == 1, it ends up with the XP skin, but
with 0 or missing it ends up with the 9x look.
The key name seems very non-intuitive.
-Chris
"Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT no instrument no spam
DOT
com> wrote in message Boy, I sure can't find it. CE6, maybe? I just did a search in *.reg
in
PUBLIC and don't see any mention of "skin" at all. Further, if you
look
at how GWES is built, it either has the XP skin libraries built into it
or
not. Searching the XP skin code doesn't find any registry entries other
than those that I mentioned. I also looked in the source for GWES and
don't see anything there. I searched the shell folders in public for
"skin", too. Nothing.
Maybe I'll build an image in the background and see if something
appears...
Paul T.
"Chris Tacke, eMVP" <ctacke.at.opennetcf.dot.com> wrote in message
I don't have the source handy, but I an absolutely certain there is a
registry key (at least there was in CE 5.0, which is when I ran into
this
problem and spent a day figuring it out myself) that you can disable
the
skin behavior with. I don't have a CE 5.0 device with the XP skin in
the
image handy (and I certainly am not going to create one just to test
this), so I don't know what it is (the key only appears if you have
skin
support installed). The key is something like Shell\EnableSkin and is
set
to "1" when you add skin support to the OS image. Deleting it or
setting
it to 0 turns off the skin behavior and allows the backcolor to do its
thing.
-Chris
"Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT no instrument no spam
DOT com> wrote in message
All we're doing is what you could do yourself: read the help, read
the
code, figure out what might work...
From reading the code in \public\common\oak\drivers\skinnableui, it
appears to me that you cannot control whether buttons or any other UI
element is drawn using the XP skin or some other skin via the
registry.
The registry can be used to control some aspects of control drawing
(how
wide a scroll bar is, for example), but the code to drawn buttons in
the
XP appearance is either built into your OS or not. If it is, you
can't
turn it off. If it's not, you can't turn it on. You'll have to take
one of the following actions, depending on what fits your needs best:
1. Remove the XP Skin component from your OS configuration and
rebuild
the OS. This will give you the Windows 9x appearance, where you can
control the button background color.
2. Continue using the XP Skin, but draw your own buttons in your
application, so that you can control the background drawing (using
owner-drawn buttons, I presume).
3. Clone and modify the XP Skin and modify the build variables, as
indicated in the CE5 help, to create your own skin library which does
something different with button drawing, but otherwise maintains the
XP
Skin appearance.
4. Live with things the way they are.
Paul T.
Hi,
i under stood he does not had the device.but i cannot find
(guess)the
registry key for removing xp skin component.i tried few but not
working.i
tried the keys hklm/shell but not working.please send me the
approximate name
of the key.if you have the device also how can you find without
knowing
the
name of the key.
if any one knows the proper key to remove the xp skin component from
windows
ce 5.0 device please help me.
please find out and help me.
Thank you,
with regards,
Ramesh.B
:
That was the point of his previous message. No, he has no device.
Use the
Remote Registry Editor on your device and your common sense to
identify the
key.
Paul T.
Hi,
Thank you for the quick response.
Can you tell me the name of the key.so that i can search the key
in
the
device.
Thank you,
with regards,
Ramesh.B
:
It's in the registry. Under HKLM\Shell or similar. I don't
have a
device
handy right now to check the exact key.
--
Chris Tacke, Embedded MVP
OpenNETCF Consulting
Giving back to the embedded community
http://community.OpenNETCF.com
hi i am also facing same problem.can you explain me how to
turn
off the
xp
skin from registry.
Thank you,
with regards,
Ramesh.B
:
I'm willing to bet that you have the XP Skin component in the
CE
image.
If
your Forms have a gradient colored caption bar then that is
the
case.
If
this skin is enabled, setting backcolor does nothing as the
skin
overrides
it. Either remove the component or turn it off via the
registry.
--
Chris Tacke, eMVP
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"David Robinson" <
[email protected]>
wrote
in
message
Hi,
I have been trying to get the backcolor property of the
button
control
to
work under the .NET compact framework with a custom Windows
CE
image,
but
I
am having no luck. The problem only seems to occur when
running the
application on a customised Windows CE image. If I run the
application
in
the
Windows CE 5.0 emulator, in Windows XP or on an ARM based
Pocket PC
2003 I
can successfully change the background colour of a button.
However
when
I
run
the application on a customised CE 5 or CE6 operating
system
on X86
based
hardware the button doesn't change colour.
I have tested the forecolor property of the button control
and
I can
successfully change this colour.
I have also tested the radiobutton, and checkbox controls
as
they
both
inherit from the same buttonbase class. I can successfully
change
the
background colour of these controls.
I have double checked that I have SP1 of VS2005 and SP2 of
the
.NET
Compact
framework 2.0 installed on both the development machine and
CE
image.
The
CE
image reports .NET version 2.0.7045.
I would be very grateful if anyone could point me in the
right
direction
with this problem as I am struggling to understand it.
Regards
David Robinson
