Testing Visual Styles - Is there an app that displays a good selection windows widgets ?

[Stuart Axon]

I'm interested in testing the visual styles support in Wine with various visual styles.
Is there an app that displays a selection of windows widgets, so I can try styles and grab screenshots of anything that looks weird ?


I'm was thinking an equivalent to the Gtk app that exercises all the widgets.

S++

[Nikolay Sivov]

On 2/21/2018 12:25 AM, Stuart Axon wrote:
> I'm interested in testing the visual styles support in Wine with various
> visual styles.
>
> Is there an app that displays a selection of windows widgets, so I can
> try styles and grab screenshots of anything that looks weird ?

There is, ControlSpy V2 [1]. Unfortunately they don't offer it for
download anymore, since maybe a year or two. You can probably find it
somewhere still.

[1]
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb773165(v=vs.85).a...
> I'm was thinking an equivalent to the Gtk app that exercises all the
> widgets.
>
> S++

[Hermès BÉLUSCA-MAÏTO]

Hello!

As always, the Wayback Machine is of great help here: a working direct download link can be found at:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140927165250/https://download.microsoft.com/do...

Also, see this old article (archived) : https://web.archive.org/web/20170720235950/https://www.microsoft.com/msj/079...
(and follow-ups) which mentions the first versions of the ControlSpy utility.

Best regards,
Hermès Bélusca-Maïto
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : wine-devel [mailto:wine-devel-bounces(a)winehq.org] De la part de Nikolay
> Sivov
> Envoyé : mercredi 21 février 2018 08:37
> À : wine-devel(a)winehq.org
> Objet : Re: Testing Visual Styles - Is there an app that displays a good selection
> windows widgets ?
>
> On 2/21/2018 12:25 AM, Stuart Axon wrote:
> > I'm interested in testing the visual styles support in Wine with
> > various visual styles.
> >
> > Is there an app that displays a selection of windows widgets, so I can
> > try styles and grab screenshots of anything that looks weird ?
>
> There is, ControlSpy V2 [1]. Unfortunately they don't offer it for download
> anymore, since maybe a year or two. You can probably find it somewhere still.
>
> [1]
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
> us/library/windows/desktop/bb773165(v=vs.85).aspx
> > I'm was thinking an equivalent to the Gtk app that exercises all the
> > widgets.
> >
> > S++