diff --git a/examples/themetest/dub.json b/examples/themetest/dub.json
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+{
+    "name": "themetest",
+    "targetPath": "bin",
+    "targetType": "executable",
+
+    "stringImportPaths": ["views", "views/res"],
+
+    "sourceFiles-windows": ["$PACKAGE_DIR/src/win_app.def"],
+
+    "dependencies": {
+        "dlangui": {"path": "../../"}
+    }
+}
diff --git a/examples/themetest/src/app.d b/examples/themetest/src/app.d
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+module app;
+import dlangui;
+mixin APP_ENTRY_POINT;
+/// entry point for dlangui based application
+extern (C) int UIAppMain(string[] args) {
+    // embed and register app resources listed in file views/resources.list
+    embeddedResourceList.addResources(embedResourcesFromList!("resources.list")());
+    // load theme from file "theme_custom.xml"
+    Platform.instance.uiTheme = "theme_custom";
+    // create window
+    Window window = Platform.instance.createWindow("DlangUI example - HelloWorld", null);
+    // create some widget to show in window
+    window.mainWidget = parseML(q{
+        VerticalLayout {
+            margins: 10pt
+            padding: 10pt
+            layoutWidth: fill
+            // red bold text with size = 150% of base style size and font face Arial
+            TextWidget { text: "Theme test for ThemeTest" }
+            Button { text: "Sample button 1 (enabled)" }
+            Button { text: "Sample button 2 (enabled)" }
+            Button { text: "Sample button 3 (disabled)"; enabled: false }
+        }
+    });
+    // show window                        ; styleId: CUSTOM_BUTTON
+    window.show();
+    // run message loop
+    return Platform.instance.enterMessageLoop();
+}
diff --git a/examples/themetest/src/win_app.def b/examples/themetest/src/win_app.def
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+EXETYPE NT
+SUBSYSTEM WINDOWS
diff --git a/examples/themetest/views/res/theme_custom.xml b/examples/themetest/views/res/theme_custom.xml
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+++ b/examples/themetest/views/res/theme_custom.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<theme 
+    id="theme_custom" 
+    parent="theme_default"
+    >
+    <style id="BUTTON"
+        align="Center"
+        margins="5pt,5pt,5pt,5pt"
+        padding="5pt,5pt,5pt,5pt"
+        fontSize="200%"
+        fontWeight="bold"
+        backgroundColor="#C0D8FF"
+        >
+        <state state_enabled="false" textColor="#C0000000"/>
+        <state state_pressed="true" backgroundColor="#8080FF"/>
+        <state state_focused="true" state_hovered="true" backgroundColor="#C0E0FF" textColor="#FF8000"/>
+        <state state_focused="true" backgroundColor="#C0E0FF"/>
+        <state state_focused="false" state_hovered="true" textColor="#FF8000"/>
+    </style>
+</theme>
diff --git a/examples/themetest/views/resources.list b/examples/themetest/views/resources.list
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+++ b/examples/themetest/views/resources.list
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+res/theme_custom.xml
+