Hi, I'm working on a native look theme for Windows XP+.
Basically I grabbed Win32Classic and started replacing custom drawing via GDI with calls to UXTheme (using the managed code in System.Windows.Forms.VisualStyles). I already have some basic controls working. It's not rocket science, but it's a lot of work because there are many controls. My current approach: I created the ThemeWin32Native class, which inherits from ThemeWin32Classic. This way I don't have to rewrite the layout code; instead, I only override the drawing code. I would like any comments on subjects like: * What would be the correct name for this class? ThemeWin32Native, ThemeWin32UX, ThemeWimp (like the GTK Windows impersonator), etc. * Until now, I needed to change visibility of at least one member of a winforms control (Button.IsDefault) from "protected" to "protected internal". Is this acceptable? * I guess the correct thing to do would be to create a base class (something like ThemeWin32Common), with code common to both Win32Classic and Win32Native. This is a mayor change and I am not a core Mono developer. Should I start such a job anyway? * Any other comment you may feel appropriate. Regards, Ernesto _______________________________________________ Mono-winforms-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list
