Interactive/DisableThemeSwitch.py

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#+


# Some of the visual desktop themes supported under Microsoft Windows
# can cause severe performance degradations for interactive applications
# such as Showcase. For this reason, Showcase currently asks the operating
# system to disable these visual themes when it first starts running. This
# typically causes the desktop them to be changed to the "Windows Basic" theme
# for the duration of the Showcase session.
#
# Users can disable this switch at startup time by loading this plug-in named
# "DisableThemeSwitch.py". Note that Showcase must be restarted after loading
# this plug-in. When this plug-in is active some workflows may cause Showcase
# to become unresponsive (or very slowly responsive) to user inputs.

from UserCustomization  import UserCustomBase
from awSupportApi       import ApplicationSettings

class NoThemeSwitch( UserCustomBase ):
    def __init__( self ):
        print "Disabling switch to Windows Basic Theme"
        ApplicationSettings.instance().setDisableThemeSwitch(True)


def instantiate():
    return NoThemeSwitch()