WinPaletter 1.0.9.1

Application improvements:
Change cursors sizes as you like in Windows 10 and higher #227.

1- Fix issue of opening WinPaletter main form after opening a wpth file with settings of not opening application is checked #202
2- Fix bug in translator GUI text search #203
3- Fix increased memory usage on rendering cursors
4- Fix exception errors happening on applying cursors
5- Fix error on applying Windows 8.1 lock screen background and Windows 7 LogonUI background

New Features:
WinPaletter is written now in C# instead of Visual Basic NET:
It is expected to face bugs due to programming language shift Please report problems you may face in Issues
Drag and drop colors items - read this to learn more:
You can drag a color into another color to make it easier and quicker to change colors You can also swap between colors, you can learn it from wiki
Palette extraction and distribution:
If you are confused with colors for your Windows colors, WinPaletter now can generate a palette from one color or from an image
Colors history:
Click on a color item and navigate to history tab, you will see all color used for current open item
GUI language editor:
It will help you create, modify and update languages JSON files by showing mini-forms that you can edit so that you can see all text items in real time
New download sources for WinPaletter
Including WinGet and Chocolatey #168
Theme log levels:
There is a new level called "Advanced details" that shows you all registry modifications and actions done to your system during theme applying
Windows Effects new feature
Animate controls and elements inside window
Improvements:
Sounds
Added Unlock and Charger connected sounds #170
Improvement in Task Scheduler deflection method #170
Fix empty icons after patching imageresdll
Fix "Sound API only supports playing PCM wave files" on opening a WAV file
Added alert dialog on changing PE files resources, for example imageresdll (for startup sound)
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Classic colors speed improvements
Bugs fixes:
Fix issue of disappearing taskbar and start in preview
Fix issue of conflict between custom DPI and metrics and fonts #179 #178
Fix small icons fonts and other fonts on applying metrics and fonts with DPI higher than 125 and with delaying metrics and fonts effects option in settings is enabled
Fix bug of opening an old theme file causes null or non-found values for the newly loaded theme
Fix WinPaletter theme load issue #173

Improvements:
Color item info:

It was formely named nerd color info
There will be a dot inside color info rectangle to indicate that the choosen color is not as the default color
Color picker control is now condensed, the previous one was extremely big compared to its contents
New settings section:
Make color label more transparent
Use default Windows monospaced font instead of JetBrains Mono
Use classic color picker instead of WinPaletter's default one on pressing on a color palette item
Extensive reduction in memory (RAM) ussage:

Removed fonts lists in consolesterminals, being replaced by native Windows Fonts picker (to reduce large memory allocation while loading list of fonts)
Improvements in loading language file (less memory usage and quick application loading time)
Fix memory leak on palette extraction from image
Improvements in loading wallpaper thumbnail, with fixing its bug #166
Updated JetbrainMono font to v2.304

Patching imageres.dll is blocked by defaults in settings, read this for more info

Save theme confirmation dialog redesigned, with new applying options (first theme and default Windows)

Bug reporting (Exceptions errors handling) improvements

Now WinPaletter will always start elevated (start as administrator) to make applying themes quicker as much as possible, and to avoid patching imageres.dll error (on changing Windows startup sound)

Drag and drop preview is removed (as this feature is not supported in any Windows application started as administrator)

Language items/texts of What's new labels will be neither loaded nor exported in/from it to avoid confusion between newly added labels' texts and old language translation

Embedded assemblies (references) are now compressed (to try to make WinPaletter with a small file size as much as possible)

Bugs fixes:
OS detection method changed to avoid bug #164
Application startup crash #153
Fix no wallpaper preview with wallpaper sideshow or windows spotlight is enabled
WinPaletter update error #154
Fix wrong preview of color on Windows 11/10 taskbar
Fix wallpaper preview is not synchronized in Windows XP
Fix application crash on starting WinPaletter with classic theme enabled
Windows Terminal:
Fixed edit button sets wrong text on pressing cancel
Fix error occuring during loading Windows Terminal preferences that inhibits the application from opening #147
Fix bug of Windows 8.1 Start screen black rectangles if designing theme from another version of Windows (not 8.1)
Fix Windows 7 and 8.1 logonUI/lock screen applying error
Fix applying fonts size trouble with high DPI #157 #160
Metrics and fonts form error #155
Fix error on pressing 'Logoff' button on main form #141 #167
Fix theme apply error on applying Windows Effects #163
Windows switcher crash #149
Fix bug of dark/light mode loading in 'Language add snippet' form
UI #134
Spelling correction #140

New Features:
1. WinPaletter Store (Beta):
You can now apply themes from the Store either online or offline from local folder.
You can also upload your themes.
WinPaletter Store will have initially small amount of themes and it will grow more and more with progression of time.
Read this to understand more about WinPaletter Store.
2. Sounds #138:
Now you can modify most Windows sounds events entries, including Windows Vista to 11 startup.
3. Screen Saver #138:
You might not know it, it was an animated full-screen window to savepreserve CRT monitors in the past.
You can select a file that you can get online or from an old Windows, its extension is (.scr).
You can find some screen savers in %windir%System32
4. Wallpaper #137:
Now you can select an image or a color to be set as your wallpaper, and you can also change its style.
Wallpaper tone feature has been moved here to Wallpaper.
5. WinPaletter application theme:
Now you can change the colors/style of WinPaletter itself, to make it consistent with a theme you design
You can prevent or block its actions by going to Settings > Appearance and uncheck (Make WinPaletter appearance is managed by the loaded theme ................)
6. Theme file (*.wpth) reading/writing mechanism is rewritten:
Now, theme file contents will be written as JSON that is better in coding, this new theme file format is valid for WinPaletter 1.0.7.7 and higher not lower.
You can convert themes made by old versions of WinPaletter to make them compatible with new WinPaletter versions.
New format can be compressed to save space especially for WinPaletter Store, to make loading themes from servers quick.
New format can have an external theme resources pack file that contains images. sounds, screen savers,... that is loaded each time you load its theme. And this is useful for sharing themes especially through WinPaletter Store.
External theme resources pack can be made by pressing edit button in main window (Pencil icon) and go to "Theme resources pack" and check its choice.
7. Theme file info:
New options are added in WinPaletter theme info, including info for Store that is useful for uploading themes, options related to external themes resources pack and theme creditslicenses.
Edit these info by pressing edit button in main window (Pencil icon),open all tabs and then edit the info.
8. Windows Effects new features:
Colors Filter (Accessibility feature) #136
Hide scrollbar in modern Windows 10/11 apps #135
Full Screen start menu for Windows 10
9. Metrics and Fonts new features:
You can change Shell Icon and Shell Small Icon for Windows XP #133
In Miscellaneous, you can make the fonts "Single bit per pixel" to give your fonts the look of old versions of Windows
Improvements:
Bug reporting (Exceptions errors handling) improvements
Settings loadsave improvements
Save theme confirmation dialog redesigned, with new applying options (first theme and default Windows)
Added an option to use the native classic Windows color picker instead of WinPaletter's one (Open Settings > Miscellaneous)
Improvements for previewer in both main form and drag-drop
Removed fonts lists in consolesterminals, being replaced by native Windows Fonts picker (to reduce large memory allocation while loading list of fonts)
Bugs fixes:
Fix memory leak on palette extraction from image
Fix logoff process is not found on pressing logoff button #141
Fix error occuring during loading Windows Terminal preferences that inhibits the application from opening #147
Fix no wallpaper preview with wallpaper sideshow or windows spotlight is enabled
Fix wallpaper preview is not synchronized in Windows XP
Fix wrong preview of color on Windows 11/10 taskbar
Fix application crash on starting WinPaletter with classic theme enabled
UI #134
Spelling correction #140

1. Windows 11 preview and description labels
Windows 11 preview is redesigned to make it closer to the latest stable builds.
Description labels are re-written, they are dependent on the latest stable Windows 11. If your Windows is outdated, these labels might not be the same as your current system.
If you installed ExplorerPatcher and uninstalled it, WinPaletter will detect ExplorerPatcher is still installed (due do ExplorerPatcher registry remnants) and so the descriptions will be different. You can solve this by going to Settings > ExplorerPatcher and then disable preview synchronization.
2. Cursors Shadow:
Now you can modify cursors shadow. You can control its color, blur power, opacity and its offset (X, Y).
Each cursor has its own separate shadow.
Shadow in "Miscellaneous" part is rendered by Windows, while custom shadow is rendered by WinPaletter itself.
The more you enable custom shadow, the more WinPaletter will take to render the cursor.
3. Improvements and fixes:
Fixing classic cursor main arrow to make it matches the classic NT cursor outline.
Improvements in Windows 7/Vista preview speed while customizing titlebar height in metrics. (There was a lag)
Fixing crashing bug during applying a classic color with classic theme enabled or applying classic colors with switching from a theme to classic mode in Windows XP, Vista & 7
Making a visual-styles change in Windows XP being applied to login screen too.
Fixing bug in reading "Fonts Substitutes" from theme file.
Fixing bug in reading and saving "Fonts" from\to theme file.
Mechanism of detecting internet connection becomes quicker than before.
UI improvements.

1. Windows Effects new items:
Change Explorer Bar for Windows 11 (Requires ExplorerPatcher) #117, Windows 10 and 8.1 #123
Disable Navigation bar #122 #105
2. Windows 10
A new option is made to control Windows elements blur (Its toggle is located beside transparency's toggle)
3. Changes and fixes:
UI improvements: #124
Some options in Windows Effects and cursors lose their effects after logoff. Now they are fixed.
Mechanism of reading from\writing to registry improved a bit
New options are added in Settings > Theme Applying Behavior to extend their applying scope in registry (All users). The options are for User Preference Mask, Logoff Wallpaper (Tested in Windows XP), Classic Colors, Metrics and Fonts, Cursors and Consoles.

New features:
1. Synchronize preview of Windows 11 with ExplorerPatcher #28:
For example, if you set a Windows 10 taskbar in Windows 11, WinPaletter will adjust the preview to make the taskbar as Windows 10, and so on.
If you didn't install ExplorerPatcher or even don't use Windows 11, you can force WinPaletter to pretend that ExplorerPatcher is used; Go to Settings > ExplorerPatcher > Check Deflect and save settings.
2. Cursors Studio redesigned:
Layout of Cursors studio is changed
New Styles for Default Cursor and Loading Cursor are made, it can be Aero, Classic or Modern.
If you use a language file, you may see this form incomplete or not perfect, so the translators should work on Cursors' section.
3. Windows Switcher
You can change its appearance now (Alt+Tab Switcher), it can be default Windows or Classic. #105
You can change Windows 10 background opacity (or Windows 11 + ExplorerPatcher).
4. New items in Windows Effects, including:
Shake a window to minimize the others
Underline menu items #110
Classic Context Menu for Windows 11 #105
Balloon notification duration #110 and force it for Windows 10 (or Windows 11 + ExplorerPatcher)
Focus rectangle width and height (More seen in classic elements) #110
Text Cursor (Caret) width #110
Active Windows Tracking #110
SysView32 #105
Snap cursor to default button
Show seconds in taskbar of Windows 10 (or Windows 11 + ExplorerPatcher) #105
Paint Windows version on desktop #105
5. Windows 10:
A new option is made to make the taskbar more transparent.
6. Classic Colors schemes:
Added Windows 1 and 2 classic schemes.
Windows 3.1 schemes are improved to have a closer look to Windows 3.1.
Changes and fixes:
UI improvements: #98 #99 #100 #101 #106 #107 #109
A new option is added in Settings > Theme Applying Behavior is made to delay applying the Metrics and Fonts until the user logsoff and logson, and this is to escape from the situation of crashing in #102 and #74

New Features:
1. Extended support to Windows XP and Vista
In Windows XP, you can change specifically the themes and logonui preferences.
In Windows Vista, you can change specifically Windows colors.
It is necessary to read their documentation in GitHub
Windows XP was suggested by @ejrv #78
2. Windows Effects:
You can change now effects and animations in Windows, like window shadow, window transition animation, desktop icons label shadow, combobox animation and other effects.
Partially suggested in #80 by @Annix
Redesigns:
Classic Colors’ 3D objects (Formerly Win32UI) redesigned to make it have an illustrative look, with doing this #79
Changed some icons in Classic Colors as the previous ones were not obvious in relation to their functions.
Main Form Extra Tools buttons are condensed to make their container able to contain new\more features.
Improvements and bugs fixes:
Classic Colors and Metrics & Fonts now have a button that imports preferences from a Visual Styles file.
Windows Animations toggle is moved from “Windows Metrics and Fonts” to “Windows Effects”.
Fixed bug in color picker that occurs during picking a color from the screen.
Fixed issue of Font “Segoe UI”’s substitution not being saved into WinPaletter theme file.
Fixed issue of Wallpaper Tone, if any value of it changed, WinPaletter couldn’t detect the change happened and so the confirmation dialog didn’t appear when you exit in the previous situation.
Remove a code caused issue in GUI with high DPIs #70.
Fixed an issue during application’s startup when listing monospaced fonts #73.
Fixed an issue during rendering LogonUI images for Windows 8.1 & 7.
Bug reporter improved and will show more details.
Drag Previewer improved a bit.
Known issue might occur during application’s startup when monitoring wallpaper\registry changes. If this bug occurred, you will be notified by a message. It is fixable by resetting your desktop wallpaper.
Now you can control cursors shadow.

Хорошая новость - появился RUS!

What's new?
Fixing minor bugs in translation. If you're using the Russian Language, please re-download it (The old translation file contained minor issues too)
Now Previewing Bug\Exception Error Details changed to a better one, there was a bug preventing the app from stating up and also not showing the details of error. Now it is mostly fixed and the details will appear. These issues were faced in #55 #45
Minor UI Design improvements, especially for the Light Mode.
The rest: as 1.0.6.1
?? The temporary announcement is still continuous: Development Paused (until mid-January 2023):
I'll pause working on WinPaletter because I will start final college exams in the next weeks for about 3 months and so I'll be so busy.
I won't be able to work on new features until mid-January 2023.
If you have an issue, post it in GitHub Issues, and when I have time to fix it, I'll fix and post an update.
When I'm back, I will work on Windows Metrics, Mini-Store for Themes and other features/improvements.
Thanks for your patience and for understanding this ...

What's new? Nothing new, the same as 1.0.6.1, except for some minor fixes:
Now Previewing Bug\Exception Error Details changed to a better one, there was a bug preventing the app from stating up and also not showing the details of error. Now it is mostly fixed and the details will appear. These issues were faced in #55 #45
Minor UI Design improvements, especially for the Light Mode.
?? The temporary announcement is still continuous: Development Paused (until mid-January 2023):
I'll pause working on WinPaletter because I will start final college exams in the next weeks for about 3 months and so I'll be so busy.
I won't be able to work on new features until mid-January 2023.
If you have an issue, post it in GitHub Issues, and when I have time to fix it, I'll fix and post an update.
When I'm back, I will work on Windows Metrics, Mini-Store for Themes and other features/improvements.
Thanks for your patience and for understanding this ...

Temporary Announcement: Development Paused (until mid-January 2023):
I'll pause working on WinPaletter because I will start final college exams in the next weeks for about 3 months and so I'll be so busy.
I won't be able to work on new features until mid-January 2023.
If you have an issue, post it in GitHub Issues, and when I have time to fix it, I'll fix and post an update.
When I'm back, I will work on Windows Metrics, Mini-Store for Themes and other features/improvements.
Thanks for your patience and for understanding this ...
What's new? Nothing new, the same as 1.0.6.0, except for some minor fixes:
Fixed bug: Applying accent on titlebar was not working on Windows 11 22H2 for some users
Application Language: improved and fixed minor bugs
Minor UI fixes and improvements

New Feature (Stable) (1): Customize Windows Consoles\Terminals:
Including Command Prompt, PowerShell, Windows Terminal and External Terminals
You can modify Colors, schemes of foreground and background, fonts, cursor color and other tweaks.
Multiple bugs and issues fixed from the previous beta 1.0.5.9; @OrthodoxWindows #48 #47
It is better to have a look at documentation: https://github.com/Abdelrhman-AK/WinPaletter/blob/master/Documentations/Terminal.md
New Feature (2): Windows 10 and 11 scheme re-constructed, with ability to apply accents on taskbar alone or taskbar, start menu and action center:
Added ability to apply accents on taskbar alone or taskbar, start menu and action center: @OrthodoxWindows #46
Windows 10\11 Colors ID\Descriptions changed to better ones instead of old\misleading ones
A new 9th color added, it was found in registry accent array, but without known usage
Reordering colors after changing toggles removed, the colors stay in the same order of accent array in registry. Each accent color has a number beside it, it is its order in registry's array
If you find a color "Undefined", that doesn't mean that it is not usable, you can use it but its effect on system is Unknown\Undefined
New Feature (3): Right-Click on theme file now has "Edit" and "Apply"; @OrthodoxWindows 's suggestion #32
Multiple improvements:
Language Translation now depends on GitHub only (Not Telegram; Deleted as it isn't necessary)
You can resize the main form as colors descriptions may be partially invisible (Some languages)
Fixing bug in translation causing the application not opening completely
Application Language: improved and fixed minor bugs
Minor UI fixes and improvements
Minor Improvement in Application Start Speed (You may not notice it)

Windows 10,11 LogonUI colors (PersonalColors_Background, PersonalColors_Accent and Background) are removed from the program, as when they are applied correctly to registry, several critical bugs occurs to Windows (These Colors are Specific for Windows 8.1)
Fixing flickering while right clicking on colors in Windows 10 (Design Bug Fixed)
Fixing non consistent size for items after reloading Windows Default Palette (Design Bug Fixed)
Win32UI minor improvement: @Anixx #43

Right Click Menu for Colors:
Right click on an item of a color palette, then this menu will appear.
It will help you copy, cut, paste, choose variants and restore default colors.
You can see all colors used in your palette in the sub-menu.
Nerd Color Info for Color Palette:
For those who love advanced information, now you can see the info of your selected colors.
Available Formats are HEX, RGB, HSL and Decimal
Know that if the color info starts with "D" and font is underlined, the color is the same as the default one.
You can edit its settings or disable it from Settings > Miscellaneous
Fixing Critical Bug in Color Palette loading for users used WinPaletter 1.0.5.0 for the first time (not for old users)
Reported by @TF2-Gaming and suggestion to help by @Yuriy-RU
Win32UI:
New: You can save classic theme of Win32UI in *.theme format to used it in any OS (Starting by Windows 95), Open Win32UI Form for more info
Fixing bugs in the Windows Classic (Win32UI) previewer, thanks to @Anixx
Windows 8.1:
Aero Lite Theme in Windows 8.1 can't be remembered if applied or not, now Fixed

New Huge Feature: Extended Support to Windows 8.1 and Windows 7
This requires at least .NET Framework 4.7, or better 4.8, then reboot your Windows (Necessary) Download it from here, choose "Runtime"
Now you can modify Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 colors in an advanced way.
Windows 7: You can change main color and color of blur (Aero) and their amount, and also intensity of both blur and aero glass reflection.
Windows 8.1: You can change background colors and accent colors in start menu and logonui backgrounds freely, and also start background scheme and Windows Desktop apps color (Titlebar\Taskbar)
You can change the theme into (Aero\Opaque\Basic) according to your OS
LogonUI: You can modify both Windows 7's and 8.1s LogonUI\Lockscreen by Custom Image or colors, and also you can apply custom effects like acrylic/blur and so on ...
New Feature Debut: Command Line Support, idea by @OrthodoxWindows #32
Usage: WinPaletter /apply:ThemeFile
Example 1: WinPaletter /apply:MyTheme.wpth
Example 2: WinPaletter /apply:"D:\My Files\My Favourite Theme.wpth" Notice the quotes here, use quotes when file path\name has spaces
Fixing Bugs:
Win32UI: Multiple bugs fixes, thanks to @OrthodoxWindows and @Anixx #24 #25 #26 #27 #30
Fixing a bug in Color Picker: Screen Pixel Picker opens the wrong form after leaving the mouse
Fixing bugs in Cursor Colorizer (It was broken in 32-bit OS, now fixed)
Adjusted Settings Saving speed (It was slow)
Drag and drop now support showing Win32UI with Windows Modern Elements

1) New Feature Stable: Colorize Cursors as you need, even the animated ones!
You can colorize cursor background, outline and the animated circles.
The colors can be solid, or gradient, or with noise texture effect.
Note: To apply cursors, you should enable the toggle in its form, and activate Automatic Apply Custom Cursors from Settings > Theme applying behavior
2) Win32UI: It has now "Quick Apply" to see instant effects, instead of loading to current palette and applying
3) Win32UI: Fixing bugs in the previewer, thanks to both @Anixx and @OrthodoxWindows Contributions': #20 #19
4) Win32UI: Now you can apply "Flat menus" and "Gradient Titlebar" without logging off and on, thanks to @OrthodoxWindows #22
5) Retro Themes Presets, thanks to @Anixx 's idea #16 #20
Themes rights go to Microsoft, they are from Windows 3.1, Windows 98 and Windows Classic (2000/XP)
The presets are found in Windows Classic (Win32UI) Editor and Color Picker