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Force Aero Basic For Individual C# Forms

Started by dave Apr 4, 2010 at 7:38 AM 3 replies 2.4k views

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Apr 4, 2010 at 7:38 AM

The reason i want to do this is because i have a series of tools windows in my main application and i think that the FixedToolWindow form border style is too bulky, and it has a drop shadow which i don't want. So is there any way i can force an individual form to draw like aero basic? I could always draw the form myself and mimick the look and feel i suppose, but i'd rather not have to resort to that. Any ideas?

benryves

Apr 4, 2010 at 11:04 AM

MDI children are drawn in an Aero Basic style, but I'm not sure you'd want to change your application to use MDI.

Spodi

Apr 4, 2010 at 11:52 AM

Sounds like a user-choice problem. If people choose to use an overly-flashy bulky Windows skin, then its their loss.

I know you can disable visual themes for a program (or, more accurately, have a program disable visual themes for the OS), but haven't heard of being able to change the theme for a particular window. Not sure if Windows even can support multiple themes at once.

Can't you use a borderless form, then manually draw the border? Would be a bit hacky and quite a lot of work for little gain, but if you really must...

Mike.Popoloski

Apr 4, 2010 at 1:56 PM

You use the SetWindowTheme function to change the visual styles of a given window. To remove all styles, you can call it with empty strings for both arguments.

dave

Apr 4, 2010 at 3:05 PM

I'll give that a go. Thanks.

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