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Windows 7 issues [message #997010]

Thu, 03 January 2013 12:08

Nagarajan Ramaswamy

Messages: 4
Registered: September 2012

Junior Member

Hello,

I have developed my RCP and it is currently working fine in Windows XP.
But the background theme keeps changes when it is run in windows 7 (or) if the user changes the theme in XP.

Is there any way to provide a common theme to the application, independent of the operating system

Thanks
Nagarajan Ramaswamy

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Re: Windows 7 issues [message #1004788 is a reply to message #997010]

Wed, 23 January 2013 21:45

Grant Gayed

Messages: 2150
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi, sorry for the late reply,

Assuming you mean the OS-provided theme then no, SWT always inherits
this, just like it inherits other native widget attributes like fonts,
colours, etc. This is a fundamental aspect of running as a native app,
to let the OS take care of work like this for the purpose of visual
consistency.

Grant

On 1/3/2013 7:08 AM, Nagarajan Ramaswamy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have developed my RCP and it is currently working fine in Windows XP.
> But the background theme keeps changes when it is run in windows 7 (or)
> if the user changes the theme in XP.
>
> Is there any way to provide a common theme to the application,
> independent of the operating system
>
> Thanks
> Nagarajan Ramaswamy
>

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