Windows 10: S.M.A.C.C - Superfly's Mouse Assisted Color Chooser

Discus and support S.M.A.C.C - Superfly's Mouse Assisted Color Chooser in Windows 10 Software and Apps to solve the problem; Thanks! I will have to do some testing because every time I tried any of the color changing methods there was always some problem somewhere where the... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Software and Apps' started by Superfly, Jul 13, 2016.

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  1. BECRITICAL
    becritical Win User

    S.M.A.C.C - Superfly's Mouse Assisted Color Chooser


    Thanks! I will have to do some testing because every time I tried any of the color changing methods there was always some problem somewhere where the GUI would come mostly unusable.
     
    becritical, Nov 20, 2017
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  2. CLIFF S
    Cliff S New Member

    Craig, in your first post if you want to embed that excel sheet so others can see it when you update it just copy & paste this in:
    [ex]319A5040034D9A35&resid=319A5040034D9A35%2141029&authkey=ABhF8X3xVmODom4&em=2[/ex]

    I believe I have given you control to update it too, but only you.

    Check out the 3rd post(is mine) to see how it looks.
     
    Cliff S, Dec 5, 2017
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  3. SUPERFLY
    Superfly Win User
    Thanx Cliff... looks good!
     
    Superfly, Dec 6, 2017
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  4. DAOPHILAC
    daophilac Win User

    S.M.A.C.C - Superfly's Mouse Assisted Color Chooser

    I was careless and changed a lot of color. How can I revert all kinds of colours back to their default value?
     
    daophilac, Mar 29, 2018
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  5. CLIFF S
    Cliff S New Member
    Settings\personalization\themes, and then select one.


    S.M.A.C.C - Superfly's Mouse Assisted Color Chooser [​IMG]


    Each theme, including the ones you create with SMACC, have their own file & registry entries, so just select another.
     
    Cliff S, Mar 29, 2018
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  6. SUPERFLY
    Superfly Win User
    @Cliff S

    Do you think that should be an additonal function? i.e. Back-up present theme before committing the new?

    BTW I really wanted to make this a UWP app but as reported in the ShowKeyPlus thread not too long ago, basic stuff like registry editing and calling (Win32) API's are not supported - which is what SMACC is all about.
    Anyway still want to make it look more appealing, I'm looking into WPF which I think will give the XML effects but still cater for 'proper' coding...
     
    Superfly, Mar 29, 2018
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  7. CLIFF S
    Cliff S New Member
    I think a "Read Me" text file telling people to save their current theme in the settings app would be enough, and that they can just go to themes in personalization to reset.

    But a warning to "save present settings before closing?" might be a nice addition.
    I know I sometimes close opened windows(sometimes the wrong one, when too many are opened) by accident, and this could protect against an hours work disappearing.
     
    Cliff S, Mar 30, 2018
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  8. DAOPHILAC
    daophilac Win User

    S.M.A.C.C - Superfly's Mouse Assisted Color Chooser

    Thank you, I can set it to default now. But I have a little question. Is it possible to change any kinds of texts colour? For example, how to change the text colour of CPU, RAM percentage in Task Manager? I try your tool and couple of other tools but seems like there are texts that are immutable.

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    daophilac, Mar 30, 2018
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  9. CLIFF S
    Cliff S New Member
    No that text color cannot be changed in Aero mode(as opposed to high contrast.

    Only highlighted text color and the text color of the navigation pane in file explorer, some system32 apps, and the MMC snap-ins(like Defrag and optimize) can be changed.

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    All SMACC color changer portion does, is change the color keys of Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors in the registry using a user friendly UI and color selector.

    Craig(Superfly) offered to create this tool for me and the forums members, that liked to theme our systems, but Microsoft broke the ability to use some of our favorite free 3rd party tools to truly all out theme.

    So we use this to create what we call "AeroHybrid" themes, a mix of high contrast and aero.
     
    Cliff S, Mar 30, 2018
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  10. SUPERFLY
    Superfly Win User
    K. cool - I'm anti-everything anyway ... LoL.
     
    Superfly, Apr 5, 2018
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  11. SUPERFLY
    Superfly Win User
    Finally got some time to devote to this project.

    Decided to go with the hamburger expandable menu.
    The Setting page (to be called Preview?) will display the colour changes/wallpaper graphically (the current version's Win 7-type graphical representation is too dated, thus will need to think of more modern representation.)

    Besides all the remaining XAML pages (huge learning curve here) that still requires completion, most of the code-behind needs refactoring - lot's of work ahead before a 'release preview' to the Theme-Team Insiders *Wink


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    Superfly, Apr 20, 2018
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  12. CLIFF S
    Cliff S New Member
    S.M.A.C.C - Superfly's Mouse Assisted Color Chooser [​IMG]
    I wanna play with it! I wanna play with it!

    It looks really nice Craig*Smile
     
    Cliff S, Apr 20, 2018
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  13. CLIFF S
    Cliff S New Member

    S.M.A.C.C - Superfly's Mouse Assisted Color Chooser

    For a start, does Microsot have an API for the color selector in Themes/Color*

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    Cliff S, Apr 20, 2018
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  14. SUPERFLY
    Superfly Win User
    Only in UWP unfortunately - I was hoping to use that (in fact my initial UWP attempt had it...but as you know none of the code works with UWP so abandoned that)

    Will look for a similar Colour-picker for WPF we can use.
     
    Superfly, Apr 20, 2018
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  15. CLIFF S
    Cliff S New Member
    ShareX download | SourceForge.net

     
    Cliff S, Apr 20, 2018
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