Windows application manifests

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

So, this function basically does... uhh.... I have no idea. :-D
What exactly does it do again?

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Mehrdad <wfunction at hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 15 May 2012 at 14:03:47 UTC, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>
>> Can anyone, please, tell me what these manifests are, where do they fit
>> in my application binaries, why is one needed to get the pretty windows 7
>> buttons and how to use them with DMD?
>>
>
> Just FYI, you don't actually *need* to include manifests in your
> executable, if you know another DLL already has them.
>
> Here's a hack to show what I mean, for enabling visual styles:
>
> void enableVisualStyles()
> {
>        TCHAR[MAX_PATH] dir;
>        dir[GetSystemDirectory(dir.**ptr, dir.length)] = '\0';
>        enum
>        {
>                ACTCTX_FLAG_ASSEMBLY_**DIRECTORY_VALID = 0x00000004,
>                ACTCTX_FLAG_RESOURCE_NAME_**VALID = 0x00000008,
>                ACTCTX_FLAG_SET_PROCESS_**DEFAULT = 0x00000010,
>        }
>        auto actCtx = ACTCTX(ACTCTX.sizeof,
>                ACTCTX_FLAG_RESOURCE_NAME_**VALID |
>                ACTCTX_FLAG_SET_PROCESS_**DEFAULT |
>                ACTCTX_FLAG_ASSEMBLY_**DIRECTORY_VALID,
>                "shell32.dll", PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_INTEL,
>                0, dir.ptr, MAKEINTRESOURCE(124), null, null);
>        auto hActCtx = CreateActCtx(actCtx);
>        assert(hActCtx != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE);
>        ULONG_PTR ulpActivationCookie;
>        BOOL success = ActivateActCtx(hActCtx, ulpActivationCookie);
>        assert(success);
> }
>
> Basically, since shell32.dll already has our manifest, I can just call
> this function instead. :-)
>



-- 
Bye,
Gor Gyolchanyan.
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