Skinned Dialogs and Forms Support

There is a simple and efficient way to customize your dialogs and forms appearance: just call EnableVisualManagerStyle and all dialog/form controls and background will be painted using currently selected visualization manager. In addition, you can declare any dialog part as a "glass" (Vista and later Windows versions) and this dialog area will appear with the "Aero" ("Mica" in Windows 11) effect.

Skinned Dialog + Aero:

Skinned Form:

Sample code:

CBCGPDialog dlg;

// Enable Visual Manager theme:
dlg.EnableVisualManagerStyle(TRUE, TRUE);

// Enable Vista Aero:
BCGPMARGINS margins;
margins.cxLeftWidth = 0;
margins.cxRightWidth = 0;
margins.cyTopHeight = 100;
margins.cyBottomHeight = 0;

dlg.EnableAero (margins);

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