What are the possible classes for the OpenThemeData function?

c++ winapi mfc themes msdn
Kiril picture Kiril · Oct 20, 2008 · Viewed 7.4k times · Source

I'm trying to call the OpenThemeData (see msdn OpenThemeData) function but I couldn't determine what are the acceptable Class names to be passed in by the pszClassList parameter.

HTHEME OpenThemeData(      
    HWND hwnd,
    LPCWSTR pszClassList
);

Could anybody tell me what are the acceptable class names that I can pass into that parameter? Thanks!

Answer

splash picture splash · Jun 30, 2011

The article Parts and States on MSDN contains a table which shows the control classes, parts, and states. The values in the table are defined in Vsstyle.h and Vssym32.h.

Here is a quick reference:

BUTTON, CLOCK, COMBOBOX, COMMUNICATIONS, CONTROLPANEL, DATEPICKER, DRAGDROP, 
EDIT, EXPLORERBAR, FLYOUT, GLOBALS, HEADER, LISTBOX, LISTVIEW, MENU, MENUBAND, 
NAVIGATION, PAGE, PROGRESS, REBAR, SCROLLBAR, SEARCHEDITBOX, SPIN, STARTPANEL, 
STATUS, TAB, TASKBAND, TASKBAR, TASKDIALOG, TEXTSTYLE, TOOLBAR, TOOLTIP, 
TRACKBAR, TRAYNOTIFY, TREEVIEW, WINDOW

The answer to the question Windows Visual Themes: Gallery of Parts and States? provides a "Parts and States Explorer" application where you can browse and test most of the styles.

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