Modern Windows GUI visual styles

[Robert Jacques]

On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:19:22 -0400, Valery <free_on at mail.ru> wrote:

> Recently I spent a few hours to find a way to enable a new styles of  
> Windows XP controls from the code (without manual created external  
> manifest files, resource files, ...). The only solution I found in DFL  
> library and it looks quite complicated.
>
> Maybe should create that function at the level of the compiler or linker?

Out of curiosity, why not use DFL? Since then you'd only have to call  
Application.enableVisualStyles(); I'm pretty sure both QT and GTK (or  
whatever GUI lib you want to use) also have a nice wrapper for enabling XP  
styles.