Windows 8 Metro Style Skin?

Dear Sirs:

Was able to successfully create a small MFC C++ Project using Visual Studio 2005 with just the 5 Radio Buttons for the Skin Changes and an exit program button... using the Skin code from the sample program "Skin Controls" then properly adding in the directory to point to the necessary Header File for the Skins then link in the proper Skin .LIB file.

Was very pleased with the results.

Tried to copy and edit a 6th Skin... which didn't do exactly what we wanted, it proved that the skin used what we did even though it wasn't correct on the color schemes, etc.

Made a duplicate copy of a large existing MFC C++ Visual Studio 2005 project then took the small amount of code from our test Skin Program and merged it into said large project and that had 1 issue that was quickly resolved.

There was a conflict with a Coinitialize function, so the DoDataExchange DDX_Radio function was disabled there and added in 1 line of code at the bottom of the initialization for the main program to call the function to change the skin to the "Vista" Skin then had to make minor adjustments to the On button click for the 5 radio buttons to each call their own function which then passed the selected index to a common routine which then selects the proper skin... Later on we will obviously populate a ComboBox then save / restore the last Skin that was selected / used.

All forms change skins properly based on changing the selected Skin from the Main form.

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Attempted to use the Skin Editor Builder from V15.3.1 Evaluation of Toolkit Pro.

Made a copy of a skin that was close to what we wanted then tried editing the .INI Files but realized that using the CodeJock Skin Editor loads the data from the skinproj file or the cjstyles file which we cannot directly edit. Tried loading a msstyle file but that crashed the Skin Editor Builder program.

Basically we are looking to make a "Windows 8 Metro" Style Skin which will mimic the look and feel of Windows 8 Metro Style Application without having to rewrite our very large MFC C++ Application.

Having major issues changing the fonts and the colors in the Skin Editor Builder.

Perhaps these would go away / work properly with the Retail Version of this product.

Thanks in advance for any helpful hints,
BillNew

Thank you for the update.

I see that the new download was added today.

Will check into it.

Thanks again,
BillNew

Please try again, files should all be uploaded now.

You have to re-run the installer, not the deployment wizard.  The Installer is the part that downloads the files.  Once finished installing then the Deployment Wizard is launched.  If you have ran the DW then you don't need to run it again.