How I can set Office 2003 app in .NET app?

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Hello, I am making a MDI RTF text editor with MS Office 2003 theme.

I know how to set a theme (capture the Window of Excel 2003, and with Paint, export Toolbar, MenuItem and MenuStrip bitmaps and then, set the bitmaps in Visual C# as background bitmaps) , but this idea has lot of bugs (for example MDI Windows menu, hasn't colored all MenuItems)

So, can anyone help me with this, please?

Thank you very much,
VitekST

PS: And sorry for my bad english, I am from Czech Republic.

Posted 23-Sep-12 7:38am

VitekST

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[no name] 23-Sep-12 13:45pm

Find a suite of controls that present the theme that you want. Or code it yourself.

VitekST 23-Sep-12 14:08pm

Hmm... that's not for me. I don't know how to code the theme suite (begin where?). And all theme suites, what I found, are paid (and I am making the Text Editor free).

[no name] 23-Sep-12 14:23pm

You could try http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/13946/Use-the-Free-USkin-Toolkit-to-Skin-your-Applicatio

VitekST 23-Sep-12 14:10pm

Is there any "hack" in Visual C# , how to set the bitmap to the all MenuItems?

VitekST 23-Sep-12 14:11pm

Including Windows menu?

BillWoodruff 24-Sep-12 8:48am

If you search CodeProject, I am sure you'll find RTF Editor controls' articles. Why not start with one of those, and then "skin it" using the content that Wes Aday sent you a link to ?

Of course the question that should be asked here is why you are duplicating the look and structure of an old Office 2003 RTF editor. MDI architecture is ugly, and is now deprecated by Microsoft. You can use a tabbed interface, or other UI's to create a multi-document RTF editor.

VitekST 24-Sep-12 10:45am

But MDI interface is very nice for me...
And if you apply the skin, it looks very nice (for me) , like this:
http://i.imgur.com/t6pTI.png

PS: And sorry for unrecognizable labels, this program is in Czech language.

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