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Steve Jorgensen
I find it very interesting that Microsoft has for a long time provided a way
to customize the appearance of standard elements of Windows applications, but
in Office 2003, for the sake of looking cool, they now use a new menu
appearance that's specific to Office, and does not seem to be customizable at
all.
I'm working on upgrades to an Access run-time application, and we're wanting
to switch to Access 2003 (partly since 2002 runtime is no longer available -
it has even been removed from the MSDN). We have automated regression tests,
though, and we're going to have to manually check every screen now for the
next run because all the automated checks are going to fail. Every screen
will be different from past runs because every menu looks different than the
old standard.
Furthermore, the point of a run-time application is that it should look like a
custom software application, not a document opened in an Office application.
For this reason, I'd rather not have our application use the Office menu style
anyway, regardless of the regression testing issue. Besides that, using a
menu that specifically ignores the OS setting for customization is a bug, not
a feature in the first place, IMO.
to customize the appearance of standard elements of Windows applications, but
in Office 2003, for the sake of looking cool, they now use a new menu
appearance that's specific to Office, and does not seem to be customizable at
all.
I'm working on upgrades to an Access run-time application, and we're wanting
to switch to Access 2003 (partly since 2002 runtime is no longer available -
it has even been removed from the MSDN). We have automated regression tests,
though, and we're going to have to manually check every screen now for the
next run because all the automated checks are going to fail. Every screen
will be different from past runs because every menu looks different than the
old standard.
Furthermore, the point of a run-time application is that it should look like a
custom software application, not a document opened in an Office application.
For this reason, I'd rather not have our application use the Office menu style
anyway, regardless of the regression testing issue. Besides that, using a
menu that specifically ignores the OS setting for customization is a bug, not
a feature in the first place, IMO.