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Month: October 2011

  • Theming & Visual Styles in Windows 8

    The following is based on the Windows Developer Preview and might not accurately represent the final version of Windows 8. A significant change in Windows 8 is the removal of support for Windows classic theming. In the Windows Developer Preview, there is no Windows Classic theme, and all themes (including Windows Basic and the four…

  • Windows Theme Fonts Redux & Sample Code

    View source on GitHub. In a post earlier this year, I investigated how to retrieve information about theme fonts in Windows. Briefly, the Visual Styles APIs can be used when visual styles are enabled, but values need to be hard-coded (to some extent) otherwise. Andrew Powell commented on my previous post noting difficulties in implementing…

  • Replacement Lisp Icon

    GNU CLISP under Windows sets the default icon for Lisp files (.lisp, .lsp, .cl) to this: I decided to make a new icon based on the style found in recent versions of Visual Studio: This is what I came up with: The .ico file includes 32-bit images at sizes 256x256px (PNG-compressed), 48x48px, 32x32px and 16x16px.…