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

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.







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.

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

Superfly said:

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

I wanna play with it! I wanna play with it!

It looks really nice Craig:)

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

Cliff S said:

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

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 said:

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.

ShareX download | SourceForge.net

Contains tools like a screen color picker,

@Cliff S and rest of the Theme Team

I need some help with an overlay png. It has the desktop icons ( will need to add app windows with buttons and stuff to assign colour changes as well but that's for a later time) Right now, how do I get rid of the fuzzy labels of the icons?

This is the pic I'm using ( made the background transparent with Powerpoint but the Start button goes transparent as well..probably need an obscure background colour to tranparentise.
Anyway, if we can get a proper one to test?



And this is how it sits on screen Wallpaper

I touched up your overlay, is this what you mean?

Nope, with words and no fuzzies, also transparent background to dislay each wallpaper underneath.


Made another which looks a bit better - less fuzzy and the start button not transparent.