[Wine] Alternative uxtheme.dll implementation for using the GTK+ rendering engine

[Ivan Akulinchev]

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?

[L. Rahyen]

Post by Ivan Akulinchev
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.

[James E Lang]

This is an Off Topic branch of a mailing list conversation (aka thread).

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-***@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" <***@science.su>
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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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[Chris Angelico]

Post by James E Lang
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.

I'd be with you, listening on the mailing list and ignoring the forum.

ChrisA

[Andrew Udvare]

Post by Ivan Akulinchev
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
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

[Christ-Jan Wijtmans]

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Post by Ivan Akulinchev
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
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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