Hi All,

I've been recovering code from a crashed HDD and in the process, have been putting a lot of my Windows related tools on GitHub as open source / free code: https://github.com/AndreasVerhoeven?tab=repositories

Someone back in the days ported it to 64 bit. The code is completely free to use non-commercially (see the link from Panda).

The bug got introduced after a couple of Microsoft libraries got updated - it's hard stuff to track into Microsoft libraries to see what exactly is triggering this issue.

It's coming! As promised, 1.x updates will always be free.

It's an experimental tool for the hardcore modders Basically, everyone replying in this thread.

Well, waiting for deviantart's reply... Massive thanks, guys

Sent takedown notice - hope deviantart responds quickly (they usually are really slow).

What's the second link exactly?

Thanks, will sent a take down notice tonight.

it's on my list 

ResourceSpy, the Caption Button editor have all disappeared without a word of explanation.

ResourceSpy and the Caption Button changer are all research projects:
 + caption button changer depends on changing hardcoded offsets in memory, something which is potentially dangerous.
 + I think we can release ResourceSpy as freeware for the windows-modding community, soon.

VistaStyleBuilder 1.6 is being worked upon:
 + fixes to the XMLs by Panda X
 + dialog bug still researching
 + several other small fixes
 + re-engineering the MSStyles compiler engine to be ready for future additions (this takes quite some time)

Over time, there have been several new features and even Windows 7 compatibility, for free. You have to understand that to make a normal living, we have to invest into multiple products - especially since piracy rates on Windows Style Builder has sky rocketed lately (for every sale we make, we see about 200 pirated copies, most of which (50%) are used on a regular basis still).

About AveStyler: the AveStyler product has been sold to a 3rd party which I'm not allowed to name yet due to contractual obligations. Existing AveStyler installs and activation keys will continue to work, of course.

I'm aiming for a september release for 1.6.

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The forum and site experienced some downtime, because of a server failure.

Everything should be recovered now, but if you find some weirdness in the forum (e.g. missing posts), let me know and I'll see what I can do.

I'm investing in a new server to replace the current dying one.

Sorry for the inconvenience,
Andreas

that searchbar has hardcoded color values. Sorry, my mistake!

A beginnersguide written by a non-programmer sounds really great. I usually describe stuff way too technical, but, I'm a software engineer ;-)

AtlasRect:Rect is a rectangle (top, left, width, height) which describes where a DWM image is located in the big STREAM image. The stream image - actually called "atlas" - is a big image composed of many smaller DWM images. Since DWM window frames are rendered in DirectX by your videocard, it's much more efficient and faster to only load one big image and tell the videocard to draw only (2,3,10,10) of the big image, than, instead, loading 100 small images.

Since VSB allows full customization of the stream/atlas image, it must and will re-layout the whole atlas image when a change is made. In that case ,the AtlasRect:Rect properties will also change (because images are located at a different position in VSBs created atlas), so VSB will update those.

In short: AtlasRect:Rect properties are actually DWM images and are fully handled by VSB :-)

Yes, 1.6 is in the works.

He signed up using a warezed key.

Hi, we do not support warezed versions of VSB - thanks!

Sent an email to ave@vistastylebuilder.com with your Paypal transaction id.

This is such a strange bug... seems to only  occur on certain conditions

I suspect a problem in the XML handling code in VSB, can you e-mail me the XMLs Panda?

Hmmm... might be an XML problem I guess.. I'll debug it tomorrow!

We are working on 1.6 features... This bug is particularly hard, since the current version uses a smart filter for the alpha fix which sometimes fails unfortunately.

VSB uses an ownerdrawn searchbox (I know, could have been done better).

Due to a DoS I had to disable the built-in wiki system. The requests are still coming in at large, but the webserver seems to be able to handle the 404's pretty well...  Time to do some firewalling of russian and chinese IPs 

We've done some maintenance work the last 15 minutes and the serial validation has been enabled for everyone. When you browse to the forum now, you'll be asked to enter your serial if you did not already entered it.

Hopefully, this will keep the bogus accounts out

Did you happen to have a warezed version installed previously?

Should be possible. You can actually simply copy the files in c:\program files\VistaStyleBuilder and the %appdata%\VistaStyleBuilder\licenseinfo files. Maybe the MSI has some options to do a silent install also, but I'm far from an expert on MSI installers.

Hi all,

Really soon, we will start to validate all forum accounts with your vsb activation details (serialcode). For new registrations, this is already the case...

Can you try again? I resetted the permissions for all pages.

About the IP: you can create an account in the wiki, then your IP will be not shown.

[What is it?]

Some more details

What is it?
Right now, this is a tool to analyze and replace system resources you would normally replace using ResHacker, without actually modifying the files on disk.

When?
No idea yet, it's very much a research project right now. I'm looking into a way to make it easier to use to end-users as well as power-users.

http://vistastylebuilder.com/forum/index.php?topic=749.0 seems to be a good example I think

thanks for pirating my software 

[NO SUPPORT IS GIVEN ON PIRATED COPIES]

It might be obvious to state, but recently I've seen a rise the number of support questions for pirated copies of VSB. We happily provide support for paying customers of course.

Needless to say, NO SUPPORT IS GIVEN ON PIRATED COPIES.

What username do you use to activate it?

We need the Paypal transaction id for it - try to contact the competition to send it to us for you.

Which competition would that be?

Can you e-mail your paypal transaction-id to ave@vistastylebuilder.com? Thanks

Did you happen to have a pirated copy of VSB installed once?

VSB does not write anything to the registry, you should be able to copy its folder with all its contents to another location. The only thing needed is %AppData%/VistaStyleBuilder/licenseinfo which contains your activation details.