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Showing posts with label XP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label XP. Show all posts

Thursday, March 15, 2007

detect if the user is using XP style or classic style

function _IsThemeActive: Boolean;
// Returns True if the user uses XP style
const
themelib = 'uxtheme.dll';
type
TIsThemeActive = function: BOOL; stdcall;
var
IsThemeActive: TIsThemeActive;
huxtheme: HINST;
begin
Result := False;
// Check if XP or later Version
if (Win32Platform = VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT) and
(((Win32MajorVersion = 5) and (Win32MinorVersion >= 1)) or
(Win32MajorVersion > 5)) then
begin
huxtheme := LoadLibrary(themelib);
if huxtheme <> 0 then
begin
try
IsThemeActive := GetProcAddress(huxtheme, 'IsThemeActive');
Result := IsThemeActive;
finally
if
huxtheme > 0 then
FreeLibrary(huxtheme);
end;
end;
end;
end;

// Example Call:

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
if
_IsThemeActive then
ShowMessage('Windows Themes are active.');
end;