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Programming With the Appearance Manager

Using Theme-Compliant Colors and Patterns

The Appearance Manager provides the following functions for working with the drawing state of the current graphics port:

• GetThemeDrawingState obtains the drawing state of the current graphics port.
• SetThemeDrawingState sets the drawing state of the current graphics port.
• DisposeThemeDrawingState releases the memory associated with a reference to a graphics port's drawing state.
• NormalizeThemeDrawingState sets the current graphics port to a default drawing state.

The Appearance Manager provides the following functions for setting the foreground or background of the current graphics port:

• ApplyThemeBackground sets the background color or pattern of the current port to be consistent with that of an embedding object.
• SetThemeBackground applies a theme-compliant color or pattern to the background of the current port.
• SetThemePen applies a theme-compliant color or pattern to the foreground of the current port.

The Appearance Manager provides the following functions for working with text colors:

• GetThemeTextColor obtains the text color used for a specified element under the current theme.
• SetThemeTextColor sets the current text color to be consistent with that of a specified element.

The Appearance Manager provides the following functions for obtaining theme color information:

• GetThemeAccentColors obtains a copy of a theme's accent colors.
• GetThemeBrushAsColor obtains the color that corresponds to a given theme brush type under the current theme.
• IsThemeInColor returns whether the current theme would draw in color in the given environment.