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Windows theme style tabs don't look right
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:24 pm
by 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!
Ooooooooooooollllllllllllddddddddd !
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 3:18 am
by 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
Re: Ooooooooooooollllllllllllddddddddd !
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 11:11 am
by ckv
Clo wrote:- 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*
Re: Ooooooooooooollllllllllllddddddddd !
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:35 pm
by XnTriq
ckv wrote:Clo wrote:- 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:
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.
Re: Ooooooooooooollllllllllllddddddddd !
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 11:33 am
by 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.

Re: Windows theme style tabs don't look right
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:59 am
by xnview
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:53 pm
by 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.
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:31 am
by xnview
ckv wrote: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
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:05 am
by XnTriq
xnview wrote:ckv wrote: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...
- right clicking doesn't bring up the context menu and
- left double-click doesn't close the child window.
XnView v1.96.0 beta 2 @ Windows 2000 SP4
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:07 pm
by ckv
XnTriq wrote:If
Use Windows theme style for tabs is activated...
- right clicking doesn't bring up the context menu and
- 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.
Re: Windows theme style tabs don't look right
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 3:52 am
by Dstruct
Not fixed in 1.96 final. Still looks wrong (as seen on the image in my initial post).