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That wasn't a great leap from Windows 3.0, either (https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/interface/dialogs/colourselector/win30.png https://guidebookgallery.org

• dfox 7y ago
  This screenshot shows only the right part of the color selector dialog, which is otherwise exactly same as the W95+ version. CHOOSECOLOR.Flags has few bits that determine which variant is shown, and this particular variant is not documented in current winapi docs. I believe that this version is only used by Windows 3.x Color control panel applet. [Edit: and as this dialog is present in Windows 3.0 it almost certainly isn't implemented by same code as Color Dialog from Common Dialog library, because Common Dialogs were introduced in Windows 3.1] [Edit2: when I think about it probably the only common dialog that actually changed since W3.1 is Print Dialog. Other changes to the library were implemented as adding new dialog types. Notably the ComCtl/COM based W95 file/folder dialogs, which actually aren’t API compatible with previous versions, because they deal in shell objects (ie. ItemIDLists) and not in filenames. (This is also probably the reason why various parts of Windows Setup use really weird looking directory selection dialog)]