I've been doing some experimenting in Windows buttons, and I've always wondered: how do you create a Windows XP style button?

All the buttons I create are in the Windows 95/98 style:



But I want them like this, in the Windows XP style:



I know it's a little trivial, but is there any way to change the style?

I'm using this code to create the button:

Code:

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HWND hbutton= CreateWindowEx(0,"BUTTON","OK",
			BS_SOLID | BS_USERBUTTON | WS_VISIBLE | WS_CHILD,
			wb->posx,wb->posy,wb->sizex,wb->sizey,
			hwnd,NULL,(HINSTANCE) GetWindowLong(hwnd,GWL_HINSTANCE),NULL);

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EDIT: For some reason, when I run the program in Debug mode, the button is in the Windows XP style. But I would still like to know how to do this without running in debug mode.

Anyone?

Check out my post: XP look and feel for common controls

Note, using the manifest method you will only see the xp style buttons after publishing. You can't see the results while running from SED.

Hope that helps.