DarkMode UDF for AutoIt's Win32GUIs

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4 hours ago, WildByDesign said:

But it may still fizzle out and not make it across the finish line because it is a lot of work. And I may need some help with some parts of it.

You just do what you envision and we'll pitch in whatever you feel stuck

[WildByDesign]

I am making some significant progress. I've got most dark theme stuff done and also the option to apply light theme is done as well. I am hoping to release something to test later today.

Some good news. MS has finally fixed some of the long standing issues. For example, a simple checkbox would never change the text color before. So we always had to remove the theme and go with the classic look to change that text color associated with the checkboxes. It was so terrible looking. Now, the text color changes appropriately when applying the older DarkMode_Explorer and the newer DarkMode_DarkTheme.

More positive stuff. Radio buttons and group text was always an issue as well. MS has fixed that with the newer DarkMode_DarkTheme and it looks awesome. Unfortunately they did not fix it in DarkMode_Explorer though. 

No matter what, we are going to get the best dark mode visuals and experience on the latest Windows 11 24H2/25H2 builds 26100.6899 and higher. Basically either 24H2 or 25H2 with the latest Windows updates are going to have the best experience.

I am putting code in place for older Windows builds to fix some things to get the best experience possible on those older builds.

Menubar top menu is going to be more difficult because it is so much more complex and I have to figure out a way to do it that makes it easier for whoever uses the UDF. This definitely wont be available in the first test release.

[WildByDesign]

@argumentum This has remarkably surpassed my expectations so far. I didn’t think that I could do it. But I did and it’s really, really good.

I was able to automatically detect specific controls that need extra subclassing and (if they exist) magically initiate any extra subclassing without the user of the UDF needing to do any of that.

I will definitely need help making sure that the UDF is worthy of being a UDF and that it is well organized and proper.

If you or anyone else does intend to help, should I put it up on GitHub or just pass it back and forth in forum posts? 

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29 minutes ago, WildByDesign said:

1) @argumentum This has remarkably surpassed my expectations so far. I didn’t think that I could do it. But I did and it’s really, really good.
2) If you or anyone else does intend to help, should I put it up on GitHub or just pass it back and forth in forum posts? 

1) With my sociologist hat on, I'll say that most limitations in intelligence are basically emotional. Happy to see that you discovered that you can 

2) With my GitHub hat..., I don't think I have one of those 🤷‍♂️
But if you build it they will come. Do it here, there, it don't matter. Open up your heart code and let people in

Edited Wednesday at 04:49 PM by argumentum

[WildByDesign]

This should get the party started for version 0.1 of GUIDarkTheme UDF.

GUIDarkTheme-0.1.7z

 

EDIT: Please keep in mind that the best experience is always going to be on Win11 24H2/25H2 (builds 26100.6899 and higher) since MS is actively (for once in a decade) developing their dark mode theme resources.

This will fallback to the previous dark theme if your build is lower.

Edited Wednesday at 06:36 PM by WildByDesign

[argumentum]

...looks structured and the examples look good. I can not read the code because IRL am overloaded with work, but I'll read the code and discern it, to give you any input that I may see worth noting if I encounter one.
If you have any questions, post them for anyone to read it and offer a way about it

[WildByDesign]

14 minutes ago, argumentum said:

If you have any questions, post them for anyone to read it and offer a way about it

I do have a question about the mini popout calendar. It's not a huge deal because I doubt that many users use that control, but my mini calendar popout shows a thin white border-like line around it in dark mode. I used the code from you and @UEZ for that. The SampleControls.au3 in Dark Mode example that I borrowed that code from does not have that thin white line around it.

Do you have any idea what could cause it?