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re: Why do I sometimes get classic buttons and sometimes themed buttons...
@Karallen - but who said the product was more important/interesting than the reactant?
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re: Why do I sometimes get classic buttons and sometimes themed buttons...
*shrug* Inheriting the behavior from the hosting process is almost certainly the correct behavior.
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re: Why do I sometimes get classic buttons and sometimes themed buttons...
>Inheriting the behavior from the hosting process is almost certainly the correct behavior.Makes more sense than corrupting the host with the guest settings (like some printer drivers did).
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re: Why do I sometimes get classic buttons and sometimes themed buttons...
@Joshua, but that's what happens.The hosting process's EXE might not have a manifest, so it probably dynamically creates an activation context with common controls 6.0. However, that only works for the...
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re: Why doesn't SHGetKnownFolderPath return the customized path?
What's the use case for wanting to know where a folder was before the user customized its location? If I (as a user) move my Videos folder to the D: drive or whatever, I don't want random programs...
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
I was technical lead on the project, and did a lot of the coding along with Danny Thorpe and a handful of others. Â It's great to see that folks still remember the game. Â Thanks, Raymond, for putting in...
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re: Why do I sometimes get classic buttons and sometimes themed buttons...
The whole stuff with activation contexes was always over my head. Looks really complicated to make both versions of comctrls work together.But what would have happened if Microsoft had just updated...
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re: Why doesn't SHGetKnownFolderPath return the customized path?
@Not a Win32 Programmer: How about resetting things back to stock after some 3rd party program co-opts the video folder because it's so special?
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
@ Mike Sandige, Danny Thorpe and others: as the original developers/company, what is the chance that you could release Pinball as open source? The community would instantly revive it!
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
The Windows 8 game, Pinball FX2, is *infinitely* better...apps.microsoft.com/.../cb9608e7-ac6b-4127-85b7-f81e27c9ebf0
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re: Why do I sometimes get classic buttons and sometimes themed buttons...
@Christian: blogs.msdn.com/.../7294949.aspx
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
I briefly worked for the company that first made HyperTerminal ... that company was Hilgraeve, in Monroe, MI. Â And that is my only contribution to this thread.
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
It's bit offtopic but why was HPFS driver back in NT 4 called pinball.sys?And going still further offtopic, why is the FAT driver called fastfat.sys? Was there an earlier slower fat driver? What could...
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
@ender. You just blew my mind (and i really should learn to use a search engine :)
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
@Jevon Wright, please do us all a favor and search for "open source" on this page. It has already been discussed to death.
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re: Why do I sometimes get classic buttons and sometimes themed buttons...
Honestly... what a mess. My Mac OSX applications all have the same style buttons, every time, every version, every day.
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
Raymon, kudos for for attempting the port - and even more kudos for giving up and focusing on more important tasks.For the people whining, you most likely have a legit Windows XP license - while it...
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re: Why do I sometimes get classic buttons and sometimes themed buttons...
@ClovisUnless they run on Java. In which case they look different.Unless they use Carbon, In which case they look different.Unless they use their own custom controls, in which case they will only be...
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re: Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista?
I, myself, *would* in fact argue for paying 10x for full rights; "just because (*you* think) we don't need them *now* does *not* mean we *never will;* and, trust me, it is possible to delay too long...
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re: Why do I sometimes get classic buttons and sometimes themed buttons...
There is a bug in Windows 7 and 8 (fixed in Vista SP2 but not incorporated in W7/8) where even if the EXE has a manifest to use visual styles, they are ignored and the program gets the ugly classic...
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