Visual Styles gone retarded

[SaintJimmy]

I've been working on a program for several weeks now, and I'm programming with VB.NET on version 1.1 of the .NET framework. I'm enabling visual styles by using the EnableVisualStyles() method.

This has worked fine until now, and I can't think of anything I could have done to break it, but all the button type controls I have on my forms are reverting back to the pre-visual styles rendering. And this is happening on every single form in my project. And it's only the buttons (and derived controls like GroupBox, RadioButton, etc.). All other controls are still rendering XP style.

Has this ever happened to anyone else? If anyone's got an idea what might have caused this, please clue me in.

 

[zekeman]

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.application.enablevisualstyles.aspx

says:

To have an effect, EnableVisualStyles must be called before creating any controls in the application; typically, EnableVisualStyles is the first line in the Main function. A separate manifest is not required to enable visual styles when calling EnableVisualStyles

Im new here, just a long shot maybe will help.

 

[Administrator]

I don't recommend the EnableVisualStyles in VS 2003, can be buggy/tricky! I suggest this third party component by SkyBound called VisualStyles.

 

[SaintJimmy]

Helps, but has some side-effects

I don't recommend the EnableVisualStyles in VS 2003, can be buggy/tricky! I suggest this third party component by SkyBound called VisualStyles.

Not a bad component there. But it's basically doing whatever it wants to do with my read-only textboxes. Even if I turn the visual style enhancements off for them, it still messes with the colors and stuff.

I suppose I can live with that, though.