News
26, March 2009
Vista Style Builder (Win7 Style Builder) 1.4 has just been released, focussing
on improved Windows7 support and a couple of bugfixes. Furthermore, 1.4 makes it
possible to test themes without having patched UxTheme files on the system.
You can obtain the new version through the original download link.
- ADD: Show Controls Preview menu item under the test menu
- FIX: color conversion bug: #010101(alpha=1) would get converted to to #000000(alpha=1) on some occasions
- FIX: speed adjustments, saving is 20% faster now
- WIN7: New classmap and parts data for Windows7 (thanks to Panda X)
- WIN7: XP to Windows7 importer (thanks to Panda X - work in progress)
- WIN7: Vista to Windows7 importer (thanks to Panda X)
- ADD: settings file can contain [window]width=900, [window]height=500 for custom sizes
- ADD: shift+click the undo menu to copy all undo entries in text form to the clipboard
- FIX: copy/paste bug on low memory conditions
- FIX: it was impossible to go back to the first undo entry (opened theme)
- FIX: empty titlebar fix on Windows7
- ADD: one-shot in-memory uxtheme patcher on board for testing themes on machines without patched uxtheme files
22, March 2009
Windows 7 Support
Panda X has been working very hard on Windows 7 support for Vista Style Builder, resulting in compatibility with the latest beta's of Windows 7: Win7 Style Builder.Starting from VSB 1.4, full Windows 7 support will be available. This update will - of course - be free for all customers.
24, December 2008
Version 1.2 of Vista Style Builder has just been released and adds an undo feature as
well as a couple of bug fixes.
You can obtain the new version through the original download link.
- ADD: unlimited Undo/Redo history
- ADD: indeterminate progressbar in the control window
- ADD: cleaned up UI a bit
- FIX: XP importer: start menu is imported correctly again
- FIX: XP importer: various buttons and parts are imported correctly again
- FIX: various speedup fixes
- FIX: memory leak when closing styles
23, October 2008
Version 1.0.8 of Vista Style Builder has just been released and introduces
some much requested features such as Searching.
Changelog 1.0.8:
- ADD: A searchbar has been added which allows one to filter/search the tree on UI-element names, on property names and on property values. For example, to quickly get a list of all used OPACITY:INT properties, one searches for "Opacity".
- ADD: The "Stop Test" button can be dropped down to reveal the "Reload Test" option. This command can be used to reload a currently running Test without stopping and starting it manually.
- FIX: When running a test, Explorer Windows will now have a ShellStyle, so the gray command bar in explorer will be gone.
- IDENTIFIED: using the -noupdateimageids flag will render Imported-XP style useless; this is a consequence of the fact that no new image ids will be given out using this flag and that the XP-importer creates several new images. Fix: don't use the -noupdateimageids flag when importing XP-styles.
20, October 2008
Version 1.0.4 has just been released to fix a major bug with Dwm Window images. It is recommended
to download and install the new version.
Changelog 1.0.4:
- FIX: Dwm Window images would come out slightly darker due to an alpha conversion bug, this has been fixed (thanks to Kerry for reporting).
- FIX: Some Part and State names where incorrect. (thanks to Kerry and PandaX)
- FIX: A small bug with StyleHacks made some properties have a wrong color
19, October 2008
Version 1.0.3 has just been released which fixes a small crash that occured for a small set of
people.
You can obtain the new version through the original download link.
18, October 2008
Vista Style Builder 1.0 has been released today!
06, July 2008
We're close to a release. Bugs have been fixed in the alpha-converter module: Vista Style Builder makes
it possible to import images from PhotoShop without fixing the alpha with other programs; you just import
the image and it works.
A major new feature is the ability to import XP themes into VSB to convert them to Vista themes. It works
well on most XP themes (e.g. Luna). However, some themes might require some small tweaking still. It is still
a magnitude faster than converting themes by hand.
03, June 2008
The first version of Vista Style Builder is now out to the main testers.