On Saturday, 25 May 2024 at 13:13:08 UTC, solidstate1991 wrote:
> No, I meant something like this:
>
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/cookbook-overview

Not tested but from memory I do this:

1) Copy that first XML snippet from the page you linked, save to a file called example.exe.manifest
2) Create a resource script file called resources.rc, with this at the top:
   1 24 "example.exe.manifest"
3) Compile it with rc.exe
4) Include the resulting resources.res on your DMD command line

You might also need to call InitCommonControls or InitCommonControlsEx before creating any windows.

On Saturday, 25 May 2024 at 19:51:25 UTC, John Chapman wrote:
> Not tested but from memory I do this:
>
> 1) Copy that first XML snippet from the page you linked, save to a file called example.exe.manifest
> 2) Create a resource script file called resources.rc, with this at the top:
>    1 24 "example.exe.manifest"
> 3) Compile it with rc.exe
> 4) Include the resulting resources.res on your DMD command line
>
> You might also need to call InitCommonControls or InitCommonControlsEx before creating any windows.


Did just that too, didn't change anything.

On Sunday, 2 June 2024 at 21:46:41 UTC, solidstate1991 wrote:
> Well, it turns out I used the windres found in mingw instead of `rc.exe` since the latter cannot be found anywhere on my PC, even after reinstalling stuff. I need to hunt it down somehow.

rc.exe comes with the Windows SDK - it gets installed in one of the subfolders of "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin" (on my machine it's in "10.0.22000.0\x64").