mity/theme-explorer

Small tool for exploring visual styles (aka themes) on Windows XP and later, as provided by UXTHEME.DLL.

Theme Explorer

What is it?

This is a small tool to explore visual styles (aka themes) on Windows XP and later, as provided by UXTHEME.DLL.

It has been developed as an auxiliary tool to be used during the development of the mCtrl project but possibly other UI developers can find it useful too.

The tool as well as its sources can be downloaded from mCtrl website:

• http://mctrl.org/tools.php

License

Theme Explorer is covered with MIT license, see the file LICENSE.md.

System requirements

To run it, you need MS Windows XP or newer (because of UXTHEME.DLL), and to be really useful, you must have visual styles enabled in your Windows.

theme-explorer's Issues

How to build it with VS2017?

Is this repo still maintained?

I'm attempting to build this project with VS 2017.

First off, there's no VS solution included in the source package. So I built it by using File -> New -> Project from Existing Code and by specifying your "src" folder. Then after adding all sorts of missing .libs and removing hardcoded manifest resource there are two main issues:

1. When I'm trying to open the "resources" in VS, it gives me this error:
   https://i.imgur.com/zqibY9k.png

2. Even after I managed to compile the code (ignoring multiple warnings), the executable doesn't seem to be showing any themes. Here's a comparison to your binary:
   https://i.imgur.com/nCtDZcq.png

some memory leaks...

1. There are a bunch of GetDC() calls inside db.c. They all require ReleaseDC() pair calls.
2. There are some GetThemeBitmap() calls inside main.c. Even specifying GBF_DIRECT as flag they seem to make anyway a copy of the bitmaps according to my environment test. Not deleting them afterwards will cause leaks. You can see it on the GDI handles column from task manager.