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Windows 10 dark mode for 3rd party programs?

Edward78
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Anyway to do it with out enabling high contrast, not sure why it needs to be supported just to turn the windows & buttons black. Seems easy to do with out extra code.

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16 minutes ago, Murasaki said:

Only real way is with "dark" 3rd party themes afaik. Only UWP programs will be able to sync to light/dark mode.

Hmmm, so unless DM is supported I am out of luck, crap. Weird high contrast does it on all apps. Anything that is like HC, but won't mess with games?

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1 hour ago, Edward78 said:

Hmmm, so unless DM is supported I am out of luck, crap. Weird high contrast does it on all apps. Anything that is like HC, but won't mess with games?

Its because high contrast is an actual theme that is applied. I stopped bothering with 3rd party themes many years back so can't really point you in any direction, sorry.

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Microsoft has ways available for devs to know the theme color of the system. You can't force a theme. Even High Contrast mode is not guaranteed to work on apps that uses custom GUI framework.

 

Many Windows framework has high contrast theme support, but for dark/light theme, so far UWP (and I think WinUI 3) is the only one(s) that has it totally built-in.

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