Modern Windows GUI visual styles

[Valery]

Jeremie Pelletier Wrote:

> As far as I know, the only way to get the newer common controls library is to use an assembly manifest, be it external or compiled as a resource. I haven't looked into DFL but I'm pretty sure it simply generates the proper manifest resource and link it in the executable.

Yes, in DFL creates a manifest file and so on, but it's done at runtime by method enableVisualStyles.
I think that there should be a simpler way to enable new styles independent of library or native Win32 API you use.