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I just noticed the buttons changed between AutoPatcher versions 5.6.81 and 5.6.100 - at least on Windows XP SP3.

The buttons on 5.6.81 are nice, rounded, more modern looking - the buttons on 5.6.100 are square and ugly.

Please, bring back the old (or new) buttons found on 5.6.81

interesting. i didn't have noticed that. i will report it, but the developers seems to be away

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Hhheehh)) They did not go away)) but they become extremely busy with they current work..
It definitely not a good objection - But I should earn somehow money to feed myself the wife and a little daughter)))
And unfortunately on work control over a workplace has very much amplified..

concerning buttons. NOTHING was done for these buttons. ONLY the OS itself is responsible for drawing GUI elements, which we ant to be shown on the dialogs/windows/forms... So I cannot do something special for that case.
Probably you did something with OS tweaks?

No, nothing changed here. The silver theme suppled by XP SP3 rendered on both versions of AutoPatcher. If you look at the release it's the same one - August 03, 2010, the only difference is I replaced autopatcher.exe - 5681 has the nice buttons, 56100 has the ugly ones. Same OS and release, only difference is autopatcher.exe.

I would think if it was OS related the buttons would be the same on both versions of autopatcher.exe not different - but they are different.

Really, no big deal just thought I would mention it.

> But I should earn somehow money to feed myself the wife
for sure

by the way, i've saw an news about an huge fire in russia. that isn't giving any trouble to you, right?

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and that is the lite version of my reality here in Moscow!

And Certainly it is terrible to present myself on a place of homeless victims of a fire

it is really very hard to breath.
yes, fire as itself is not a problem for me personally - but its aftereffects ... (((((

about buttons - use these 2 files:  manifests.zip (1.35K)
downloads: 7

> And Certainly it is terrible to present myself on a place of homeless victims of a fire
sure. it's terrible just to see it at the news, i can't even imagine the reality for those that are facing this fire

> it is really very hard to breath
true. a great deal of people surely will have a lot of health problems due that and most of them probably will be children. so please, take an extra extra care with yours due that

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Thanks Antony, the manifest files did the trick.

Does this mean I have an issue with my Windows XP manifest file, is there a way to check?

I will say, this is the only time I have had an app not display properly as far as I know. I have been learning VB6 and Python, every GUI has been rendered properly according to the theme used. I'm still puzzled, why would 5681 use rounded buttons and 56100 use square, wouldn't this have to do with how the exe was compiled and the manifest file included in the compilation process?

 gUiTaR_mIkE, on 10 August 2010 - 08:10 AM, said:

its not really that hard to understand. if you look at autopatcher.exe with a PE/Resource/Hex editor you will see that the manifest is NOT included in the latest version. hence the fallback to the old classic style buttons.

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of course it isn't, but around here you need to be diplomatic or... There is one common denominator - autopatcher.exe, and apparently apup.exe, and as you mentioned, a missing manifest during compilation.