Windows theme style tabs don't look right

[Dstruct]

Windows XP Professional SP3 with Classic theme + XnView 1.96

-> Tools -> Options -> Interface
-> check "Use Windows theme style for tabs"

-> OK

=>


Something wrong there!

[Clo]

Dstruct


Hello !

• That's an ooooolllllld issue reported from ages and never fixed…
- I bet that our Dear Mr. Librarian'll find out the thread¦s

- Here, I use always a customized Win9x theme in XP-Pro, and only the XnView XP style
for the menus, but not for tabs, of course !

VG
Claude
Clo

[ckv]

- I bet that our Dear Mr. Librarian'll find out the thread¦s

Don't encourage him. He can be quite scary sometimes. *runs away*

[XnTriq]

- I bet that our Dear Mr. Librarian'll find out the thread¦s

Don't encourage him. He can be quite scary sometimes. *runs away*

... but you cannot hide!
Sitä saa, mitä tilaa:

• Tab Theming for XnView 1.81
• Options Revolution finds it way into 1.90...
• Default Tab control overlaps with border
• RC2: No tabs after tab option change.
• Where can I specify colors for the tabs?
• Mouse close of tabs

Now that we finally get to see you more often again, making you leave is the last thing on my agenda;
especially since I remember being told early on not to frighten anyone away from the forum.

[ckv]

Gasp! I runned as far as I could, but there was huge freaking wall on my way and on the wall was text "... but you cannot hide!"

I think the real problem here is that XnView is actually trying to draw the tab bar with non-existing theme. The Windows Classic theme in XP and vista really means, no theme. You can only choose between the XnViews own custom draw style or Windows theme style.

For example: The option to use the Windows theme for tabs is grayed out in Windows 2000 and there's no way to use the normal windows tab style.

So to fix the bug here XnView should disable the option to use Windows theme style for tabs when no theme is active (Classic theme).

If you really want to get the old classic non-themed tab style you, probably should make a new topic about it in the suggestions section.

Any of this might not make any sense, but trust me it does.

[xnview]

Please try XnView 1.96 beta

[ckv]

Works in Windows 2000 too.


"Use Windows theme style for tabs" checkbox in options dialog is disabled, but manually setting TabBarDefault=1 in .ini file works.

[xnview]

Works in Windows 2000 too.

"Use Windows theme style for tabs" checkbox in options dialog is disabled, but manually setting TabBarDefault=1 in .ini file works.

Right

[XnTriq]

Works in Windows 2000 too.

"Use Windows theme style for tabs" checkbox in options dialog is disabled, but manually setting TabBarDefault=1 in .ini file works.

Right

If Use Windows theme style for tabs is activated...

1. right clicking doesn't bring up the context menu and
2. left double-click doesn't close the child window.

XnView v1.96.0 beta 2 @ Windows 2000 SP4

[ckv]

If Use Windows theme style for tabs is activated...

1. right clicking doesn't bring up the context menu and
2. left double-click doesn't close the child window.

XnView v1.96.0 beta 2 @ Windows 2000 SP4

Confirmed in XP and Win2k. Also new mousewheel tab switching doesn't work with this classic theme tabs.

[Dstruct]

Please try XnView 1.96 beta

Not fixed in 1.96 final. Still looks wrong (as seen on the image in my initial post).