Color Problems - could be XP vs Win9x issue?

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Adam J. Schaff

Hello,
I have written an application for a CE device. It works fine, but the colors
are all wrong. In emulator the colors look correct. However, when I run on
the actual device my buttons and panels are all a near-white color instead
of the colors I have assigned to them. In the case of the buttons, I have
actually set them to Yellow just to make it visually obvious. Again, they
look yellow in the emulator, but not on the actual device.

The device has SP2 installed, so that isn't the problem. However, I noticed
that the buttons are more rounded on the corners and the titlebar is the
brighter blue of XP (whereas the emulator shows a dark blue like Win9x), so
I am wondering if I am fighting a configuration setting of the device. With
that in mind, I went hunting under Control Panel, but could not find any
setting that lets me turn off the XP look/feel.

Does anyone know if there is another way (maybe a registry setting or
something) that I can force a CE device to use Win9x look/feel?

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
AJ
 
You're using a CE device with the XP sample skin enabled. There's a reg key
(I don't recall offhand - probably under HKLM\Shell or similar) to turn it
off.

-Chris
 
Chris: Thanks for confirming the source of the problem. I do not find a
Shell branch under HKLM. I've looked around but I don't see any likely
settings anywhere under HKLM. It's hard when I don't know what I'm searching
for.

Anyone: Do you know the name or registry path for the setting Chris is
talking about?
 
I always thought this was a build option (in Platfrom Builder) and that you
couldn't switch on the fly... could be wrong though...

Cheers
Daniel
 
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