Theme names under XP

[Maurilio Viana]

Is possible to detect XP theme names?
I think paint the background color of outlook class based on XP theme (blue, silver or green...).

Regards,
Maurilio

[James Bott]

Maurilio,

The answer is supposedly here:

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/xptheme.asp

It shows how to read this information from the registry. However, the key, ColorName, that it says holds the theme color, doesn't exist in my registry (and I am using themes). So, I don't know the anwser.

James

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

The API is GetCurrentThemeName() but I don't know how to use it as it requires wide chars strings.

EMG

[Maurilio Viana]

Thanks, James and Enrico.

I´ll try any about it.
If I have success I´ll publish here.

Regards!
Maurilio

[Maurilio Viana]

Here a single function to detect XP theme name

return:
"WindowsClassic" if no theme is used
"XPBlue" if theme is blue
"XPGreen" if theme is olive green
"XPSilver" if theme is silver

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#define  HKEY_CURRENT_USER       2147483649

function CurrentTheme()
local cTheme   := "WindowsClassic"
local cKeyName := "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ThemeManager\"

oReg := TReg32():New( HKEY_CURRENT_USER, cKeyName )
if oReg:nError == 0
    cTheme := StrTran( oReg:Get("ColorName", ""), chr(0),"")
    do case
       case cTheme == "NormalColor" ; cTheme := "XPBlue"
       case cTheme == "HomeStead"   ; cTheme := "XPGreen"
       case cTheme == "Metallic"    ; cTheme := "XPSilver"
       otherwise                    ; cTheme := "WindowsClassic"
    endcase
endif
oReg:Close()
return( cTheme )