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Programming With the Appearance Manager

Drawing Theme-Compliant Windows

The Appearance Manager provides the following functions for applying theme-compliant colors and patterns to windows:

• SetThemeWindowBackground associates a theme-compliant color or pattern with the background of a window.
• SetThemeTextColorForWindow sets a window's foreground color to a theme-compliant color.

The Appearance Manager provides the following functions for drawing theme-compliant windows:

• DrawThemeModelessDialogFrame draws a beveled outline inside the content area of a modeless dialog box.
• DrawThemeScrollBarDelimiters outlines a window's scroll bars.
• DrawThemeStandaloneGrowBox draws a size box.
• DrawThemeStandaloneNoGrowBox draws a fill image for use in the corner space between scroll bars.
• DrawThemeTitleBarWidget draws a close box, zoom box, or collapse box.
• DrawThemeWindowFrame draws a window frame.
• DrawThemeWindowHeader draws a window header.
• DrawThemeWindowListViewHeader draws a window list view header.

The Appearance Manager provides the following functions for obtaining window region information:

• GetThemeStandaloneGrowBoxBounds obtains the bounds of a size box.
• GetThemeWindowRegion obtains the specified window region.
• GetThemeWindowRegionHit obtains the part of the window that the user clicked upon.