Preview of the Dark Side 2015 Control Bar (buttons still unfinished):

 

EQ type selection has new style. It was possible to draw a partially transparent box around selected EQ name while maintaining 100% compatibility with SONAR.
Light background makes it easier to read EQ values than the standard gray (screen capture is compressed JPG, in SONAR numbers are sharper).
 

 
S-Type compressor: I added start and end values to Threshold, Attack and HPF knobs and removed their surrounding dots. (JPG compression messed small numbers in screen capture.)
 
 

Yeah, thanks Panu, this looks pretty nifty.

Dark Side 2015 Preview

 
Still unfinished, but you'll get the idea of what's coming... :D There are certain colors in SONAR2015 I can't access anymore because Cakewalk has made a big change in EXE file validating (it goes to demo mode if colors buried in the EXE file are tweaked). However, lots of things are still possible and I can bring new life to the Skylight interface. :)
 
You can be professional and still like colors!
 
 

panup
Preview of the Dark Side 2015 Control Bar (buttons still unfinished):

 

Day-um.... as a fan of the MayaBlue theme for Melda plugins, that's very tempting, Panu.

Ye this is looking good!! Liking it very much!!

panup
Mudgel,
 
I can finally replicate the drag & drop issue you have had in Duckbar's ModPatcher2015 after reinstalling Windows. However, I haven't found a fix yet...
 
 

Haha. So I wasn't imagining things. The current system works fine. I'm using Windows 10 now, and it's the same. The drag and drop still doesn't work.

mudgel

panup
Mudgel,
 
I can finally replicate the drag & drop issue you have had in Duckbar's ModPatcher2015 after reinstalling Windows. However, I haven't found a fix yet...
 
 

Haha. So I wasn't imagining things. The current system works fine. I'm using Windows 10 now, and it's the same. The drag and drop still doesn't work.

Reason for the disabled drag & drop is explained here:

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 The problem is tied to how security permissions work. The ability to drag and drop from a normal applications to an elevated one would break the security model behind UAC. However, I'm unclear as to why a UAC prompt isn't shown, thus allowing for a temporary elevated operation (much like any linux user experiences every day). This is definitely something that Microsoft needs to work on. What troubles me is that this problem is already old. Vista behaved the same.
There's 2 things you can do (one ugly, one annoying)
 

Ugly: Disable UAC. But you lose all the extra security it offers.

Annoying: Use another File manager and run it too as an AdministratorWhy another file manager? Because you can't actually elevate Windows Explorer. Despite seeing the option in the context menu of the Windows Explorer icon and a UAC prompt being displayed, the fact is Windows Explorer will not be elevated.

Source: http://superuser.com/questions/59051/drag-and-drop-file-into-application-under-run-as-administrator
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Drag & drop would work if Duckbar was executed with standard right, not as Administrator. Unfortunately Duckbar can't access 3rd party program's files and registry without admin rights.
I improve other methods to make modding smoother.
 

@Panup   Which Version of Duckbar is the most suitable for Sonar X3E  (X64)?

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@Panup   Which Version of Duckbar is the most suitable for Sonar X3E  (X64)?

Any of the newest versions. Also the next update (2.3.5) is X3 compatible.