Windows Style Builder 1.6 Ideas List - Any suggestions?

[Panda X]

WSB 1.6 Ideas:

• • Goto have the ability to use the same path as difftool (<ButtonStyle>.<1>.<1>)
• • Goto have the ability to use DirectUI like paths (BUTTONSTYLE, 1, 1)
• • COLORIZATIONCOLOR:INT show color rather than integer / Use color picker
• • Font replacer (Replace font that matches x with y)
• • Font preview in property box
• • Color replacer (Replace color that matches x with y)
• • Image alpha tagger¹
• • DWMWindowIsChanged::Bool²
• • Font picker automatically opens upon adding
• • Color picker automatically opens upon adding
• • When opening a theme copy Shell to %temp%
• • Open help in new window button.
• • On Test/Apply reuse last DWM Colorization Color.

¹On import VSB will add a value into the image to represent whether or not the image has been alpha fixed. When export then imported again VSB will check this value then either import by its default function or import and skip the alpha conversion based on this value.

²WSB will check if the end-user has modified any classes in DWMWindow. If not the stream will be ignored on compile preventing pixel alignment errors.

[heeschoo]

I want to be able to save bookmarks, that would save many clicks. 

[Panda X]

1) We've implemented a documentation and a wiki that were both requested yet never get used.
2) What?
   a) What? UXStyle's Rafael's UXTheme patcher.
   b) Context Menu
3) The system doesn't return an error so there's no way of knowing what went wrong. Windows wasn't meant to have custom themes.
4) Windows Style Builder. Has been since 1.5. Has nothing to do with the program.
5) It's waiting for export. Also in the context menu.
6) What?

[Panda X]

2) vistastylebuilder.exe....all the dialogs and strings
 a) The UxStyle.file dialog (#210) about what do you want to do about shellstyles. Why do I never see this.
 b) The Stylehack dialogs (#211-212) why do I never see these in the context menu?
6) "The target file is currently the active visual style" string that leaves you with no where to go. Seems to pop up randomly..in my experience anyway. What's up with this?

The context menu I get has very little in it and little explanation about what is there.

1) Yeah this was way under-utilized. I'm as guilty as everyone else.

2)
 a) Oh UxStyle ahahahahah. Oh my that thing is so old. It never made it to the final product.
 b) When you click export marked properties to stylehack Dialog #211 shows. When you click the Stylehacks button in the CommandBar Dialog #212 shows.
6) When you try to save a file that's applied by the system (it's already in use). Click use Aero and it'll bring up a second dialog to apply it or not.

[mdtauk]

-  A screenshot preview system showing how the elements looks before and after your changes

-  Animation tester for elements like the Touch indicator and the spinning busy cursor

-  Option to automatically move more troublesome settings from Direct UI files to the MsStyles with colour coding in VSB to show the new entries previously in the shellstyle.dll

-  An indicator of some kind on graphic elements which usually require an alpha fix on import

-  Add as many controls, and their various possible states as possible for testing to the control preview window

-  Implement the caption button sizer into the MsStyles somehow (not sure if it is possible)

-  Add a style repository with previews for opening styles

-  New styles from template (kinda like automatically applied style hacks)


Not all of these are great ideas, but they are ideas all the same!!!

[sunbeam2000]

hey Panda, good ideas for 1.6!

i only miss 2 more functions:

an optional image export function  with "back to original" alpha.. (if technically possible)
because exported images stay darkened, i want to change a small part, but it doesn't work anymore..
(i need this for previewpane-shinelayers etc)

When starting VSB, it should load the last saved theme or opening a concerning dialog.
Often it happens, when working on a VS, saving it with new buildname, then starting vsb next time it loads a previous version, which i start to work on and just later i see, its an older build..
(yes i know, i have to look in the titlebar  )
but that was better solved in 1.4...

the rest is perfect for me...

[esveein]

another suggestion:

- be able to change the sizingmargins and contentmargins by dragging the guidelines in the preview window.

[ka-la]

What about timer that shows how long have you made your style , would be cool to look.

[agent 99]

is "On Test/Apply reuse last DWM Colorization Color."  the ability to retain the color scheme after a test
instead of switching back to the ugly aero blue?

[Panda X]

is "On Test/Apply reuse last DWM Colorization Color."  the ability to retain the color scheme after a test
instead of switching back to the ugly aero blue?

Yes.

[satukoro]

The only thing that I can think of to improve this is also adding a replace [*:COLOR]

• with [*:COLOR][y] for all the color properties. (example: FILLCOLOR:COLOR)

[Panda X]

The only thing that I can think of to improve this is also adding a replace [*:COLOR]

• with [*:COLOR][y] for all the color properties. (example: FILLCOLOR:COLOR)

Like all red changed to blue? Or...?

[satukoro]

Like all red changed to blue? Or...?

Yeah, something like that. It could be like: ( where |*| is a drop-down combo box and [RGB] is what the color box normally looks like in the properties pane )

|COLOR| |FILLCOLOR| swap all [255, 0, 0] with [0, 0, 255]

[Panda X]

Yeah, something like that. It could be like: ( where |*| is a drop-down combo box and [RGB] is what the color box normally looks like in the properties pane )

|COLOR| |FILLCOLOR| swap all [255, 0, 0] with [0, 0, 255]

Yeah I posted that in the first post along with a font replacer idea that does the same.

[satukoro]

Yeah I posted that in the first post along with a font replacer idea that does the same.

Yeah, that would be a great add on for WSB.