Designing a new UI

[micheus]

Just to not let you without any information...

Hmmm not a very active forum I guess?

Wings3D doesn't have as many users as other 3d applications have, but it has a lot of 'supporters'. Our forum is usually visited by around 22 registered users every day - that revisit the forum many times a day. But, yes, no much activity here.

The current UI uses the wxWidgets library which brings to the app the OS's look and feel. So, there is no much space for visual customisation. You can basically do that with colours and fonts - in Preferences dialog (User Interface tab).

Share this kind of settings is possible by using the File->Save Preference Subset.
To store the color informations that we change in the Preferences dialog the Graphical Settings checkbox must be checked in the save dialog. Same for the windows layout (arrangement) that we must check the Window and View Settings checkbox.
The file (*.pref) usually is stored in the same place as Preferences.txt that is stored in a place like 'C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Wings3D', but it can be saved anywhere.

The icons in the toolbar are almost "hard coded" (you find them here). They are "compiled" to create a pack with the '.bundle' extension: wings_icon_bluecube.bundle (default), wings_icon_classic.bundle and wings_icon_purpletube.bundle (you find them in a place like this: C:\Program Files\wings3d_2.1.5\lib\wings-2.1.5\ebin).
The icons/orig folder contains the png and Gimp file used to build the icons introduced to 2.* version. For the old ones you can find the psd files in psd folder.

Cheers