Windows Themes Suppression

Themes alter the way Windows displays fields (elements within controls). For example different themes display buttons and captions differently, including rounding corners and hilighting. Future versions of windows may do different things when it comes to displaying controls which may effect the colors and shapes of displayed fields.

Microsoft first began using themes with XP. The 'classic look' is the Windows 2000 appearance, which is what is produced when themes are suppressed. Vista permits users to select from among several themes as a part of the user's desktop settings. Sometimes theme processing can slow down the display of large quantities of data, and sometimes it can create an appearance thae is less desirable than the classic look.

BR offers three methods for suppressing the use of Windows Themes:

A new field attribute is defined that may be specified in ATTRIBUTE statements and in FIELDS leading attributes:

^NOTHEME    indicates prevent use of Windows Themes

OPTION 50 ! suppress Windows themes for text boxes only

Config WINDOWS_THEMES OFF | ON This entirely suppresses the use of Windows themes.

Windows Themes Suppression is valid for 4.2+ versions of BR.