wine users - Jun 2015 - Alternative uxtheme.dll implementation for using the GTK+ rendering engine

Hello,

At the weekend I have wrote an alternative uxtheme.dll implementation
and I want
to share it with you.

The idea was very simple. Most of the Windows applications use
uxtheme.dll to
draw their controls calling the functions like DrawThemeBackground. I
noticed,
GTK+ has a very similar interface (compare: gtk_render_background) and
it would
be nice to have a wrapper arround it.

So I have got UxThemeGTK. There is still a lot of work, but you can test
it now:
https://github.com/akulinchev/uxthemegtk (see the screenshots at the
bottom of
the page). Pull requests are certainly welcomed!

Regards,

Ivan

P.S. Shall I send a copy to wine-devel?

On 2015-06-29 15:24, Ivan Akulinchev wrote:
 > Shall I send a copy to wine-devel?
     Yes, if you want Wine develops to read your message.

     By the way, wine-users mailing list almost not used anymore. 
Instead, we have Wine forum.

On 29/06/15 08:24, Ivan Akulinchev wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> At the weekend I have wrote an alternative uxtheme.dll implementation
> and I want
> to share it with you.
> 
> The idea was very simple. Most of the Windows applications use
> uxtheme.dll to
> draw their controls calling the functions like DrawThemeBackground. I
> noticed,
> GTK+ has a very similar interface (compare: gtk_render_background) and
> it would
> be nice to have a wrapper arround it.
> 
> So I have got UxThemeGTK. There is still a lot of work, but you can test
> it now:
> https://github.com/akulinchev/uxthemegtk (see the screenshots at the
> bottom of
> the page). Pull requests are certainly welcomed!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ivan
> 
> P.S. Shall I send a copy to wine-devel?
> 
This is a really cool idea! However, I would like to see a uxthemeqt too
as I use KDE and it will fit a bit better.

Have you tried a Gtk+ app for Windows using this code? It seems a bit
strange it would be 'double-rendered' and it even seems prone to error
in that case, especially since such an app may have exceptions for the
Windows build.

Andrew

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On 30 Jun 2015 21:11, "Andrew Udvare" <audvare at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On 29/06/15 08:24, Ivan Akulinchev wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > At the weekend I have wrote an alternative uxtheme.dll implementation
> > and I want
> > to share it with you.
> >
> > The idea was very simple. Most of the Windows applications use
> > uxtheme.dll to
> > draw their controls calling the functions like DrawThemeBackground. I
> > noticed,
> > GTK+ has a very similar interface (compare: gtk_render_background) and
> > it would
> > be nice to have a wrapper arround it.
> >
> > So I have got UxThemeGTK. There is still a lot of work, but you can
test
> > it now:
> > https://github.com/akulinchev/uxthemegtk (see the screenshots at the
> > bottom of
> > the page). Pull requests are certainly welcomed!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ivan
> >
> > P.S. Shall I send a copy to wine-devel?
> >
>
> This is a really cool idea! However, I would like to see a uxthemeqt too
> as I use KDE and it will fit a bit better.
>
> Have you tried a Gtk+ app for Windows using this code? It seems a bit
> strange it would be 'double-rendered' and it even seems prone to
error
> in that case, especially since such an app may have exceptions for the
> Windows build.
>
> Andrew
>
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Is there a way to cross-link the wine-users mailing list and the Wine forum?
What I'm suggesting is to have Wine forum postings get automatically posted
also to the wine-users mailing list and insert a "Reply-to" header
such as
       Reply-to: wine-users+wine-forum at winehq.org
as a part of the forum initiated message headers to enable mailing list replies
to be posted back to the forum. Of course if it's desired to have all
mailing list postings appear UNCONDITIONALLY on a single forum (not recommend)
then this message header is not needed.

I was unaware of the Wine forum and I don't particularly care to need to
visit a forum just to see what, if any, topics are being posted there. (I tend
to be a lurker on a variety of mailing lists like this one, watching for
interesting subjects in order to gain knowledge. If I find a topic where I can
make a contribution then I reply to the mailing list.) I know some other people
don't like posts appearing in their mailbox. To each his own mode of
operation. Those who prefer forums need not subscribe to the mailing list and
people like me will seldom visit the forum(s). Still others may visit the
forum(s) regularly but desire to maintain a personal archive of particularly
useful posts on an IMAP server.
-- 
Jim

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From: "L. Rahyen" <research at science.su>
To: Ivan Akulinchev <ivan.akulinchev at gmail.com>, wine-users at
winehq.org
Sent: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 1:53
Subject: Re: [Wine] Alternative uxtheme.dll implementation for using the GTK+
rendering engine

     By the way, wine-users mailing list almost not used anymore. 
Instead, we have Wine forum.

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