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How to create Dark Themed GUIs with AutoHotkey

We’ve had several calls discussing Dark Themed GUIs so I thought I’d create a page discussing them.

During the October 8th Live AutoHotkey Support, Dimitri Geertz showed us some of the cool work he’s done code he got that updates GUIs with a style.

Screenshot of a Zoom call with Joe Glines and Dimitri, two men on video chatting during the AutoHotkey live support session
I demonstrated in this video with the following download

Video thumbnail showing a man beside stacked AutoHotkey GUI windows in different styles, titled Easily apply 29 Styles to AutoHotkey GUIs

In the second hour of the AutoHotkey webinar Dimitri showed some more work he’d done

Thumbnail for AutoHotkey webinar Hour 2: Functions and more, showing hands typing on a laptop beside the AHK keys and WEBINARS label

Lastly I had the below call with Jean Lalonde, Dimitri Geerts, and Chad Wilson / Maestrith.  One example Dimitri cited was from this post.

The second half of this call Maestrith was demonstrating how easy it is to make highly customizable GUIs with this HTMLGui Class

 

 

 

How to use HellBent Button theme creator class to create multiple buttons

HellBent asked if I’d join him for  a video where we walk through his “button maker”.   This tool is really awesome!  While it does have the ability to save a created image as a PNG, that’s not it’s goal.  In my opinion the tool is better described as a “Button theme creator”.  You can use his GUI editor tool to create a “template” for images.   Then re-use your look (or borrow someone else’s) and “draw” your buttons.    You see, when you use this class, instead of saving images of buttons, you’re actually drawing the buttons on the screen.  You can get the files I created from the tutorial here.  The AutoHotkey Forum link to all the files is here

Drawing your buttons instead of using files, has several advantages

  1. It’s badass cool!
  2. You don’t have to worry about how your screen displays the images (stretching them for resolutions ,etc.)
  3. You don’t have to save the image files (which helps a lot when sharing your scripts)
  4. It’s much easier to deal with DPI issues (we cover this at the end of the video)

Walkthrough of HellBent Button theme creator class

 

AutoHotkey Webinar- 6/2021 Helping Users- API calls, ACC library & more!

AutoHotkey webinarThis AutoHotkey webinar was pretty amazing!
Video Hour 1: Helping others: Snagit, ACC library, Controls
Video Hour 2: GUIs, PID verse hwn ID, & more

Script Highlight:  Fiddler Everywhere Ripper / API Syntax writer

We also discussed Webservice APIs.  Our AHK Webinar on APIs is a great place to start

You also might want to download our API Syntax writer

We discussed the ACC library in this ahk webinar and demonstrated its usage in this AHK Webinar

When we were working through how to best solve Snaggit issue, I mentioned the 17 ways to automate windows  as well as AutomateMyTask