Initialize the dark-mode helper. Detects the current "Choose your mode" preference, resolves the undocumented uxtheme.dll dark-mode entry points, hooks comctl32's delay-load import of OpenNcThemeData so dark NC scrollbars work on standard controls, and creates the shared dark background brush.
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void SftDarkMode_Init(void);
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Call at application startup, before any window is created. Typical call sites:
Calling Init again re-reads the Windows setting (replacing any SetActive value) and refreshes the menu theme state; applications that handle WM_SETTINGCHANGE / ImmersiveColorSet themselves call it there, as the samples do. Pair with no explicit shutdown - the helper does not allocate per-process resources that need releasing on exit.
Init is what makes the rest of the SftDarkMode API actually do anything. Without it, SftDarkMode_IsActive returns FALSE, and the ApplyTo* functions and SftDarkMode_HandleDialogMessage leave windows in the light appearance.
Note: the implementation must be compiled into the application by defining SFTDARKMODE_IMPLEMENTATION in exactly one source file before including SftDarkMode.h. Without that define the linker will fail with an unresolved symbol on SftDarkMode_Init.
See Also IsActive | SetActive | ApplyToDialog | HandleDialogMessage
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