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InitCommonControlsEx and its error messages #789

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@felixf4xu

Hi,

This is a follow-up issue of #645 (comment).

I played with the code a little bit:

  var ICCE: INITCOMMONCONTROLSEX =
      INITCOMMONCONTROLSEX(dwSize: DWORD(MemoryLayout<INITCOMMONCONTROLSEX>.size),
                           dwICC: dwICC)
  if !InitCommonControlsEx(&ICCE) {
    log.error("InitCommonControlsEx: \(Error(win32: GetLastError()))")
  }

I found 2 results:

  1. if mt tool is not called (no manifest file), InitCommonControlsEx will fail but GetLastError() is 0 (no error), in this case, there will be a very confusing log like this: error message of no errors:

error org.compnerd.swift-win32 : [SwiftWin32] InitCommonControlsEx: Win32 Error 0 - The operation completed successfully.

If mt tool is called, the error message is gone.

  1. Only ICC_STANDARD_CLASSES causes the issue 1) above, if ICC_STANDARD_CLASSES is not used at all, mt does not matter, InitCommonControlsEx will always succeed.

By its name, ICC_STANDARD_CLASSES seems to have effects on buttons at lease, but at least to "UICatalog" UI, all controls including buttons are initialized correctly without ICC_STANDARD_CLASSES.

So maybe we can remove ICC_STANDARD_CLASSES? It will make InitCommonControlsEx to always succeed (with or without mt)
and have no bad effect on the buttons and other controls.

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