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Exporting a theme as a package after color blending

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Thibaut asked on 26 Jan 2011, 02:50 PM
Hello,

I am using the windows 7 theme. I want my application color to be red so I use color blending. I am not totally satisfied with the result, so I would like to edit the generated red theme in the VSB as it is mentioned in this blog post :

http://blogs.telerik.com/blogs/posts/08-10-31/chameleon_skinning_coming_up_to_winforms_in_q3_2008.aspx
"And finally if the resulting skin still needs some touches, you can export the modified theme data to xml files, and tweak them using the Visual Style Builder app, as much as you wish. "

To export the theme I used the code attached in this thread, that uses XmlStyleBuilderRegistration objects.
http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/winforms/themes-and-visual-style-builder/theme-and-addcolorblend-not-working.aspx

This code generated 56 Xml files. I start the VSB and hit "Open directory" to load all xml file but VSB says that these files are old and no more supported.

How can I export a color blended theme to edit it in the new VSB?

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Thibaut

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answered on 31 Jan 2011, 09:37 AM
Hello again,

According to this thread http://www.telerik.com/help/winforms/tools-visual-style-builder-working-with-visual-style-builder-loading-themes-created-with-the-old-vsb.html it seems that only repository items can be imported from old theme versions.

I think I will make my changes to the base Windows 7 theme, the changes will still be reflected when the color blending happens.

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answered on 31 Jan 2011, 10:56 AM
Hi Thibaut,

Thank you contacting me.

The blog and the forum thread that you have been looking at are old and they concern an already outdated theming mechanism which we no longer use. Since Q1 2010 when we have introduced a brand new and improved mechanism which currently does not support saving dynamically introduced changed to the theme.

Let me know if you have additional questions.
 
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answered on 31 Jan 2011, 11:45 AM
Hello Stefan

Thank you for the clarification.

I tried changing the base theme (without color blending) and it works well.

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Thibaut

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