[ros-dev] Update reported version to Windows 2000 (Service Pack?)

Royce Mitchell III royce3 at ev1.net
Sat Mar 19 22:17:53 CET 2005


Mike Swanson wrote:

>The default version reported should match the level of compatibility
>the developer's think they're at. Although having a changable option
>sounds nice... both basic (select NT4, 2000, XP, etc from a list) and
>advanced (dig into the actual numbers). A little like SETVER (MS-DOS)
>and Compatibility Mode (hidden in Win2k; enabled in WinXP), you should
>have per-application settings as well.
>
>StyleXP uses Windows XP's own visual styles, it does not add any extra
>skinning functionality (WindowBlinds does, though). In order for that
>to work on ReactOS, we need to implement a visual styles (uxtheme.dll)
>that is compatible with Windows XP/Server 2003 first.
>
>  
>
All these discussions are really rather moot. We will never *be* any 
particular version of Windows. We might as well report the latest, 
giving the user the option to change it for finicky programs.

As I mentioned previously, we ought to default to reporting a "future" 
version of Windows, just to keep nosy version-checking apps happy.



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