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David Grayson. David Grayson David Grayson You need a manifest file: stackoverflow. I'll try this eventually, but the working GUI did not have a manifest file so I am skeptical. And the thing you linked to has nothing to do with themes or styles. Widgets styles are optional when you build Qt. Meaning that you can choose which styles to build and which not to build. Also some styles requires external dependencies and they can be omitted from the build if you do not provide such dependencies.

The Windows Vista style does have external dependencies and might have been skipped from your build. To check which styles are available at run time you can call QStyleFactory::keys. The Windows Vista and XP themes depend on "uxtheme. From my config. I got things working by configuring Qt correctly; a manifest was never needed.

Show 1 more comment. Active Oldest Votes. I had the same issue after upgrading from Qt5. Jonathan Owens Jonathan Owens 2 2 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. Thank you very much! Such an easy solution! Thumb up!