Registering a New Look-and-Feel Handler

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To be able to dynamically create a look-and-feel handler, you need to properly register it. To do this, you need to add the following macro inside the class declaration:

DeclareLookFeelTypeInfo();

Then, in the definition file, use the following macros:

IlvPredefinedLookFeelMembers(MyLookFeelHandler, "MyLook");

IlvRegisterLookFeelClass(MyLookFeelHandler, BaseClass);

where BaseClass is the base class of the new look-and-feel handler.

The class is now properly registered, that is, you can create for example an instance of it using the following code:

IlvLookFeelHandler* lfh = IlvLookFeelHandler::Create(IlGetSymbol("MyLook"));

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