Re: Windows themes and documentation

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

This has been SOP for Windows since XP was rolled out
way back in 2001.  Unless you use compatibility mode to 
disable visual styles or apply some kind of skinning, all 
applications display using the current system settings.

If you're documenting an app written to run under XP,
you do your screencaps with the system in XP mode.
The last version of Windows to default to "classic"
mode was discontinued two years ago.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com>

> The application whose documentation I am updating appears to change
> depending upon which Window's theme one has chosen. 
> 
> How weird is this, or am I the one being weird?
> 
> Go here: Control Panel > Display > Themes. Notice you can select Windows
> Classic or Windows XP.
> 
> Depending on which is selected, my application's appearance changes
> enough for me to sit up and pay attention.
> 
> I knew that, in general, squared and gray windows, messages, and dialog
> boxes would now have rounded corners in Windows XP and look flashier,
> but it seems the buttons specific to the application change, too. The
> app appears to detect the theme.
> 
> Has anyone dealt with this before in documentation? How did you handle
> it?

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