Vista Style Builder 1.0.3
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on 24 October 2008
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VistaStyleBuilder comes with a simple GUI totally focused on editing MsStyles. Since VSB is specially for Vista, it has a Vista-look-and-feel.
Porting XP Visual Styles to Vista is made incredibly easy: VSB comes with an Import-XP-tool. Your imported Luna will even work in Aero-mode and get dropshadows for free!
STREAM image editing is fully supported and totally seamless; STREAM images are handled just like normal images. VSB will take care of everything, including resizing and layout out the stream efficiently.
The Preview window will show exactly how the margins will relate to resizing of an image.
VistaStyleBuilder gives you full control over your MsStyles file: you can remove or add new properties to every possible part. By adding new properties, new effects such as textglows in the taskbar can be achieved.
You can easily change complex parts with the help of StyleHacks. Vista Style Builder will come with a selection of StyleHacks made by the best MsStyle hacker, UK.Intel.
When you import a new image with a different size than the original, VistaStyleBuilder will prompt you what to do with the image.
Clicking the Test button will directly let your pc use the Visual Style you are developing. You also get an window which shows all common controls in their available states.When you quit test mode or VSB, the Visual Style on your pc will be set back to normal.Vista Style Builder allows you to create your own themes for Windows Vista on the fly! v1.0 was released on October 18th but since then an updated version was released to fix a crash problem some users were experiencing.
October 19th 2008
Version 1.0.3 has just been released which fixes a small crash that occurred for a small set of people.
Features
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Create, Modify and Save Custom MsStyle files for Vista
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No more .mui files needed
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AutoFix Alpha Channels with PNGs
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Control all theme properties
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Make changes to the STREAM images like normal image edits
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Test your Visual Style with one Click
Requirements and others
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Vista Style Builder will only run on Windows Vista
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MsStyles created with Vista Style Builder can only run on a Vista PC with theming enabled and with a so-called patched UxTheme file.
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Editing the ShellFile is not supported at the moment, this might come in a future release.
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