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That was more viable back when the Win32 common controls were being maintained, but they have basically been out of support and on bare maintenance mode for sev
by ack_complete 2y ago
That was more viable back when the Win32 common controls were being maintained, but they have basically been out of support and on bare maintenance mode for several years. There are no future improvements and they don't even support currently expected functionality like dark mode, much less basic flexible layout. All OS UI toolkit development moved over to UWP and is currently a mess with the WinUI 2 vs 3 split.
- PinkSheep 2y agoIt's worse than bare maintenance, MS may have entered the stage of "clueless breaking" probably for the same reasons outlined above (newcomers don't understand what came before them). The following is an account as an end-user. It is an old Win32 program from the 90s. Remember the theme styling controls from Desktop->Properties etc? For example you could change the white Control background to something else. Even if it never worked well enough everywhere, it was supported by native Controls. And in this application too. Recently the developer must have migrated the app to a new SDK (I guess). Not only did the clickable buttons lose all their borders, making them harder to eye-track, but all those native Controls? Lost their legacy theming support. Changing the background color no longer applies in the new version, it remains white. And that's unlikely developer's own work. I assume the SDK adheres to newer guidelines itself.