turn them off for one control?

[Barry Erick]

I was searching for why PBS_SMOOTH did not work and found that the sp thems does that. I want to use themes in the program, but the search showed that you can turn off themes for a control but did not show code.

How would I turn off themes for one control only?

[Jules Marchildon]

"just by calling SetWindowTheme with an empty string your control (button/checkbox/combo etc) will not be painted with the XP Theme. That is easy enough! You will find the SetWindowTheme function in UxTheme.dll which ships starting with Windows XP."
...Source: http://raz-soft.com/cc/disable-xp-theme/

[Jules Marchildon]

DECLARE FUNCTION SetWindowTheme(BYVAL hWnd AS DWORD, pszSubAppName AS ASCIIZ, pszSubIdList AS ASCIIZ) AS LONG   
 
'------------------------------------------------------------------------------
'Purpose: by calling SetWindowTheme with an empty string your control
'         (button/checkbox/combo etc) will not be painted with the XP Theme.
'
'Example: LOCAL hButton AS DWORD
'         hButton = GetDlgItem( CBHNDL, %IDOK )
'         lRes = DisableXPThemeControl ( hbutton )
'         InvalidateRect hButton,BYVAL %NULL,%TRUE
'------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FUNCTION DisableXPThemeControl(BYVAL hControl AS DWORD) AS LONG
  LOCAL hLib AS DWORD, pProc AS DWORD, lRes AS LONG
  hLib = LoadLibrary("UxTheme.dll")
  IF hLib THEN
     pProc = GetProcAddress(hLib, "SetWindowTheme")
     IF pProc THEN
        CALL DWORD pProc USING SetWindowTheme(hControl, " ", " ")  TO lRes
        FUNCTION = lRes
     END IF
     FreeLibrary hLib
  END IF
END FUNCTION