Vista Aero border possible?
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| Ok, I have rummaged through the forums here and couldn't fine a working way how to retrofit an executable by BlitzMax to use Aero frames. Currently, when I launch my game in Vista, it complains about not being able to run Aero theme and switches back to basic theme. While not a show stopper, my publisher wants it resolved asap. Outside of Blide purchase... which I did but still have not recieved my login/code... is there a way to do this? This must be done asap and help would be greatly appreciated. |
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| Did you try to simply place a manifest file into the applications folder? Without that, Windows theme will not work on any executable. If that does not work, then you are out of luck, as BM bases on WinAPI UI calls (pure 2D through GDI), not .NET and DX like the Vista surface |
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| er. What? Has the behavior changed then? When I first used max in a beta of Vista, it worked fine in Aero... Hmmm. |
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| Cygnus, can you post your manifest file and let me know which items to change for my exe? I have found some samples and they did not work. My executable is jewels.exe, so I created a sample manifest file called jewels.exe.manifest that resided in the same directory as jewels.exe. But, Windows still switched over to Aero Basic from 3D. Thank you. |
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| What kind of window is it? ie is it using OpenGL drivers? |
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| No, 2D game initialized by calling Graphics 800, 600, 0, 60, GRAPHICS_BACKBUFFER So I assume DX7 DirectDraw. |
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| Ok, resolved. I got my BLIde license key and the publisher options take care of it for me. |
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| strange ... so most likely a real manifest issue? ... |
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| I made the XP manifest a resource object file, so you can quickly compile the manifest *within* your executable by simply calling Import "xpmanifest.o". Download and put this file in the same directory as your source, then compile like normal. NB: This is pretty much what BLIde Professional Publisher does automatically, except it allows you to add Product Name, Author, Publisher etc. details too. |
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| I'm not using a manifest and I don't have a problem with anything I've compiled on vista.... I have had a problem with some BMax programs I pulled over from my last computer. In my case I was suspecting the difference may be compiling with MaxGUI or not. I will do some testing when I get home if nobody else gets to it. |
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| I've got no problems with the Aero interface either. I get it just fine. I also use BLIde (the free version) and MaxGUI, |
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| . (Ooops) |
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| ok, I can't get it not to work... gui or non-gui builds from vista run just fine for me. both were compiled using the CE edition of the IDE. But again, I have seen that problem where is turned off the Areo effects and that was from something I built on XP. |
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