Kadang2 bosen juga ya klo liat tampilan Project yang kita buat dari VB 6 masih kelihatan jadul, nah sekarang saya akan memberitahukan cara membuat manifest XP pada VB6 dengan kodingan, VB6 masih belum menyediakan fasilitas seperti seperti Delphi7 untuk manifest XP
Buatlah 1 Form dan 1 kontrol Timer di VB6 kita seperti berikut, kemudian atur property Timer menjadi
- Enable = False
- Interval = 1000
Kemudian Double Klik di control Timer dan masukkan kode berikut :
Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
On Error GoTo error ‘ ERROR HANDLING
Dim myEXEpath As String ‘ DELCARE VARIBLES…
Timer1.Enabled = False
Unload Me ‘CLOSE DOWN THE APPLICATION FOR RESTART
If Right(App.Path, 1) = “\” Then
myEXEpath = App.Path & App.EXEName & “.exe”
Else ‘| GET THE PATH FOR YOUR APPLICATION
myEXEpath = App.Path & “\” & App.EXEName & “.exe”
End If
Shell myEXEpath, vbNormalFocus ‘ RESTART YOUR APPLICATION. THE THEME SHOULD NOW BE IN EFFECT! ENJOY!
Exit Sub
error:
MsgBox “Error exucuting the EXE file. This would be caused by you trying to compile the manifest file from inside Visual Basic. You can only see the theme when fully compiled, and ran as an .EXE file :)”, vbExclamation, “Manifest Exucution Error!”
End Sub
Di Event Form_Initialize , ketikkan kode berikut :
Private Sub Form_Initialize() ‘BEFORE THE USER SEES FORM
Dim xptheme As Long
Dim manifestpth As String ‘DIM THE VARIBLES ETC
On Error GoTo manifestdoesnotexisT ‘IF NO MANIFEST THEME FILE HAS BEEN MADE YET
If Right(App.Path, 1) = “\” Then ‘|
manifestpth = App.Path & App.EXEName & “.exe.manifest” ‘|
Else ‘|
manifestpth = App.Path & “\” & App.EXEName & “.exe.manifest” ‘| FIND OUT IF MANIFEST ALREADY EXISTS
End If ‘|
FileCopy manifestpth, “c:\checkexist.txt”
Kill “c:\checkexist.txt”
xptheme = InitCommonControls ‘ IF MANIFEST EXISTS, EXUCUTE CONTROL UPGRADE TO XP THEME STYLE
Exit Sub
manifestdoesnotexisT:
Call makeNEWmanifest ‘ IF MANIFEST DOES NOT EXIST, AND ERROR OCURRS, GO AND MAKE A NEW ONE
End Sub
Kemudiam, buat Sub / Procedure seperti ini :
Sub makeNEWmanifest()
Dim NEWmanifestpth As String
Dim xptheme As Long ‘ SET VARIBLES ETC…
Dim setAShidden As Long
On Error GoTo problemARGH ‘ ERROR HANDLING, GOTO PROBLEMARGH ON ERROR EVENT
If Right(App.Path, 1) = “\” Then ‘|
NEWmanifestpth = App.Path & App.EXEName & “.exe.manifest” ‘|
Else ‘| SET PATH OF MANIFEST THEME FILE
NEWmanifestpth = App.Path & “\” & App.EXEName & “.exe.manifest” ‘|
End If ‘|
Open NEWmanifestpth For Output As #1 ‘ WRITE THE MANIFEST FILE BECAUSE IT DOES NOT YET EXIST.
Print #1, “<?xml version=” & Chr(34) & “1.0″ & Chr(34) & ” encoding=” & Chr(34) & “UTF-8″ & Chr(34) & ” standalone=” & Chr(34) & “yes” & Chr(34) & “?><assembly xmlns=” & Chr(34) & “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1″ & Chr(34) & ” manifestVersion=” & Chr(34) & “1.0″ & Chr(34) & “><assemblyIdentity version=” & Chr(34) & “1.0.0.0″ & Chr(34) & ” processorArchitecture=” & Chr(34) & “X86″ & Chr(34) & ” name=” & Chr(34) & “HybridDesign.WindowsXP.Example” & Chr(34) & ” type=” & Chr(34) & “win32″ & Chr(34) & ” /> <description>An example of windows XP theming.</description> <dependency> <dependentAssembly> <assemblyIdentity type=” & Chr(34) & “win32″ & Chr(34) & ” name=” & Chr(34) & “Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls” & Chr(34) & ” version=” & Chr(34) & “6.0.0.0″ & Chr(34) & ” processorArchitecture=” & Chr(34) & “X86″ & Chr(34) & ” publicKeyToken=” & Chr(34) & “6595b64144ccf1df” & Chr(34) & ” language=” & Chr(34) & “*” & Chr(34) & ” /> </dependentAssembly> </dependency> </assembly>” ‘ CONTENTS OF THE MANIFEST FILE…
Close #1 ‘ YOU NEED TO HAVE THIS FILE, OR THE THEME WILL NOT WORK!
xptheme = InitCommonControls ‘ IF MANIFEST EXISTS, EXUCUTE CONTROL UPGRADE TO XP THEME STYLE
setAShidden = SetFileAttributes(NEWmanifestpth, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN) ‘ HIDE THE MANIFEST THEME FILE
Timer1.Enabled = True ‘ START THE TIMER…. BECAUSE THE MANIFEST HAS JUST BEEN WRITTEN, YOUR PROGRAM NEEDS TO RESTART.. THIS DOES IT FOR YOU
Exit Sub ‘ SKIP ANYTHING AFTER THIS MARK IN CURRENT SUB
problemARGH: ‘ IF AN ERROR OCCURED DURING THE CREATION OF THE MANIFEST
MsgBox “Error creating Windows XP theme file. You may be running EXE file from a network drive with which you dont have write permissions. Themes will not be enabled.”, vbExclamation, “Themeing Error!” ‘ TELLING USER THAT THEMES WILL NOT BE ENABLED
End Sub
Kemudian deklarasikan Funtion-function yg akan di pakai ( tulis di bagian paling atas ) :
Private Declare Function InitCommonControls Lib “Comctl32.dll” () As Long ‘ API FOR UPGRADING CONTROLS
Private Declare Function SetFileAttributes Lib “kernel32.dll” Alias “SetFileAttributesA” (ByVal lpFileName As String, ByVal dwFileAttributes As Long) As Long
Private Const FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN = &H2 ‘ API FOR SETTING THE MANIFEST AS HIDDEN
Jika sudah semuanya…, kompile-lah Aplikasi kita, lalu jalankan EXE nya, efek XP ini nantinya akan berpengaruh terhadap semua Form yg ada di Apliaksi kita .
