Hi Buddy,
I am most impressed with your rounded faders UI tweak. If only Cakewalk would employ a graphics guy like yourself to overhaul the whole look.
How do you do the hacking of the dll? Is it too complex for us amateurs to do or does it require a heap of stuff?

Finally. I cannot install the 8.3 hack as this doesn't run on 8.3.1. Will you be updating your hack at all. Keep up the good work

Chris

Ok forget that last bit. Ran patch as administrator (vista!!!) and have cool faders installed. Love em!!

Hi Chris, thanks for the kind words! check my signature for the latest version of the faders (just make sure to download the correct 32-bit or 64-bit version...depending on which version of Sonar you have installed)

I use Restorator 2007, although it's over 3 years old, it's one of the best if not the best resource editing program out there. You need a graphics creation program like Gimp (free) or photoshop (which is quite expensive if you're not a dedicated designer)...so gimp is probably the best way to go and is updated regularly. Using Restorator, you need to find the UI files you would like to alter, export them (as *.bmp) and then change them to what you wish. All of these graphics have set dimensions that can't be altered (from a designers POV), so its important not to change any sizes as they are hard-coded into the program. save the final design changes with gimp, etc as a bmp and use restorator to replace the images in the original file. that's the basis of it, hope it helps.

"Run as Admin"...one feature that really sucks in vista! viva XP!

Thanks Buddy

I am going to start a search for Restorator 2007 as soon as this is sent. I have P'shop so I can get cracking. Thanks for sharing this information.

Best
Chris

I work with large templates and I'd like to know if there's a way to utilze colors in this way :
To give differing colors to Tracks and/ or Track Folders in the Tracks Pane & Console views.
For example:
VLNS 1: Track Folder: Dark blue; Track Labels : medium blue.
VLNS 2: Trk Folder: Dark Green; Track Labels: Light Green
and so on.
I've, for instance, 17 Vln FX patches in play from East West XP Gold alone, so varied color labeling, particularly when jumping around to faders would be of at least if not maybe more benefit even then instrument icons.
Not to be forgotten though is that I really like the ability to freshen the view or even just rest the eye impact by moving from color scheme to scheme.
Thanks for a great product.
g.c.

So I was messing with a resource editor and I got the "slider" for the console to replace, but it has the gray box around it. Since I can't assign a png as a resource with a transparent background where that box is and bmp doesn't support transparency, how do you go about replacing these things?

I would guess alree or buddy can pretty easily answer this one.

The gray doesn't show, only the slider and its drop shadow. You just need to make sure that the gray background has the correct values. ie. same as the original.

I did that - used a sample of the color from several different programs. Tried exporting with 256 color and 24bit color. Is 32bit required? I'm using both Xara Xtreme nd Paint Shop Pro as my apps and neither one seems to be exporting the right thing here.

The color I'm using for the background rectangle is RGB: 48,52,64 (or #303440)