by bmbsa (4 Submissions)
Category: Miscellaneous
Compatability: Visual Basic 5.0
Difficulty: Advanced
Date Added: Wed 3rd February 2021
Rating: 
(13 Votes)
This article tells you how to get the Windows XP visual themes into your program without having the manifest file.
VBcodersStep1: download 'Resource Hacker' v3.4.0 from
here, if you have
it then skip this step and go to step2
Step2: add the following code to your program before converting to
.exe file:
Private Declare Function
InitCommonControls Lib "comctl32.dll" () As
Long
Private Sub Form_Initialize()
InitCommonControls
End Sub
Step3: Open the notepad and copy the following code into it
and save it as a .txt file.
encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
name="yourAppName"
processorArchitecture="x86"
version="4.34.0.0"
type="win32"/>
Your Program Name
type="win32"
name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls"
version="6.0.0.0"
processorArchitecture="x86"
publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df"
language="*"
/>
Step4: open your .exe file with resource hacker by clicking open in
the file menu. (or open your resuorce file .res if you don't want to edit your program each time you rebuild the project)
Step5: Click on 'Add a new Resource...' from the 'Action'
menu
Step6: the following dialog will show up
Click on the button called 'open file with new resource...'
and choose the .txt file you saved in Step3
Step7: In the Resource Type: type 24, In the
Resource Name type: 1 and In the Resource Language type:
1033. and then click on 'Add Resource'
Step8: Save the changes by clicking on 'Save' from
the 'File' menu. Finally, Terminate the Resource Hacker.
Done!
open your .exe file and notice the cool interface :)
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