question about skinning

November 26, 2006 8:56 PM from

i am using VB 6 with DirectSkin OCX and I am wondering how do i skin custom buttons so they look like standard buttons? In VB 6 if i change the Style property for a button from Standard to Graphical the button doesn't end up getting skinned properly.

so how do i skin graphical buttons so they look like standard buttons when they are skinned (meaning so they look like they are supposed to look)

thanks for your time and i look forward to your reply.

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Reply #1 November 27, 2006 9:30 AM from

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Graphical buttons are ownerdraw in VB which is why DS cannot skin them.

Having said that, try calling SetVersionExpected (113) before your DoWindow call as that will make DS try to make them look skinned.

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