Ok then, please make me a statusbar with all the features I described, and that looks EXACTLY like a WindowsXP statusbar, and when I say EXACTLY, I mean regardless of what WindowsXP theme I have set, whether a builtin theme, or a 3rd party theme. If you can do that, then I'll agree, this feature is not needed, but without the use of a dll to at the very least obtain the information about the current theme, it is not possible, so your claims are not valid.
