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Old 10-23-2021, 10:26 AM
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Default Re: Windows 11 Pro Tools still has Windows Vista style box

In addition to the "Vista style" window borders, file dialog boxes (open, save as, etc.) are also outdated in Pro Tools on Windows. If you have Windows set to dark mode for File Explorer, you'll notice that Pro Tools file dialogs ignore that setting. Actually, Pro Tools is using "Vista/XP" era file dialogs as well which pre-date the dark mode option (select File-Open in Pro Tools, and File-Open in Windows Notepad to see the difference). My assumption is that they're using older Windows libraries to instantiate things like file dialogs and window borders. While it still "works" for the time being, you'd imagine that at some point Microsoft might deprecate those libraries, so Avid should address it. In addition to being aesthetically unpleasing, it's just seems a bit lazy (Windows 8/10 have been out for several years) or potentially indicative of some other deeper issue with being able to update that code within the application.
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