I'm starting out playing around with themes and custom controls and have some fairly neat results.
I'm just wondering if anybody would actually be interested in paying for such components/themes? It looks to be an area that would be fairly big, since there doesn't seem to be a market there right now, but its just whether or not people are willing to pay for it.
Ideally, if I do go ahead with it, I'll be attempting to create the visual style of common bootstrap visual styles so you can expect to get that 'bootstrapped' feel within your VS projects.
What do you guys think?
They would have to be incredibly good. Most free themes are quite impressive already.
(Dec 8, 2014 06:05 AM)KillαMuvz Wrote: They would have to be incredibly good. Most free themes are quite impressive already.
Agreed.
I'm more in to bringing custom controls in, too. eg. Maps (Which i have working already), toggles, nav bars, alerts, graphs, text panels, etc. Essentially everything beautiful from the web, imported in to form controls. As a web dev enthusiast (Wouldnt say i'm really seasoned, but i know my shit), one thing that i've hated with win forms is the consistency in application. being able to bring new life to the forms would be great, especially since i feel that the whole C# side of things is lacking a lot.
Any custom controls that you guys would be interested in?
(Dec 8, 2014 06:29 AM)Odus Wrote: I think the market for themes mainly works on an as-needed basis. For example if someone is making something to sell on HF and they want a custom theme, they'd hire someone who makes themes to do it specifically for that program.
Great point - Bespoke works well, though being able to essentially 'Bootstrap' a forms application seems like something that could be a great asset to have. I don't think I'd charge much, something like $25 or so for a standard control set, with a more extended version at a higher price.
What do you guys think?
If they are extremely good quality I would pay for it. Current theme I use on my crypter was 20$ from Aeonhack long long time ago.
(Dec 8, 2014 07:24 AM)KillαMuvz Wrote: If they are extremely good quality I would pay for it. Current theme I use on my crypter was 20$ from Aeonhack long long time ago.
Quality and performance are my main concerns. If it's not perfect, I wont release it.
Question still open in regards to controls that you guys would feel would be beneficial.
Appreciate the words, Aeon.
I've had a think about this and I'm starting to verge away from it. Whilst there's definitely a market, I don't know whether it would be big enough. Win forms are dying out now, and it would seem like a fairly silly idea to approach a dying platform.
I'll keep looking in to it, but for now, i'm tempted to just release what i've been working on for free - Concept work, but still fun to play with.
One of the things that I played with was colour consistency. Using a standard 'VisualType' I've essentially been able to reference the colours through a colour manager, giving the following functionality (Note the properties in the view). These properties can refer to ANY control (Progress, button, toggle.. etc):
i.imgur. com/iei8DRt.png
(Dec 8, 2014 08:12 AM)6e756c6c Wrote: I strongly disagree, Windows Forms isn't going to die out anytime soon, I would say they have at least 5 more years. WPF just isn't at a point where it's user friendly enough and they have changed so much that adoption is going to be a slow process. Take VB6 for example, it stopped being supported in 2005 and didn't really die off until (conservatively) 2010?
Whilst I agree a little with this, I'm learning on a first-hand basis that the future is the web. I work for a company that are currently porting their desktop software (Originally wrote in .Net) over to the web. It's a lot more powerful, has the ability to serve a larger customer base (Think both operating systems and hardware) and is a lot easier to maintain.
I wouldn't say that Win Forms are dead just yet, maybe I worded that wrong, but taking the choice of starting a development in Win forms nowadays is something I'm not sure I want to do.
(Dec 8, 2014 08:16 AM)Hawk HF Wrote: ...
This is another reason that theme-designers will create free themes. They want to show their talent to the community so that when the time comes and someone needs a custom theme, they can take a look at a user's previous work. Logically, the person who has released the best themes, considering appearance and functionality, will receive the job of creating a custom theme.
I hope this answers your question.
- Hawk
I like what you've said here, though free isn't an option. Unfortunately I value my time greater than the majority of the community (This is probably the worse thing I've ever said, but I'd rather speak from my heart than speak some pretty bullshit just to keep people happy) and don't feel that it's given enough to me for me to want to share my hard work/time for free. I'm looking to make money, not internet credit.
Please don't take this the wrong way, I'm not trying to be an asshole, but I'm just extremely business minded and as such need to justify my time in terms of profits.
(Dec 11, 2014 10:32 PM)Astek Wrote: you don't even need to install/buy it, just use the dlls in your project, as long as its an older version
support the developer, bro. you wouldnt like it if someone did the same to you, especially since its a cheap ass piece of software anyway!
(Dec 12, 2014 02:07 AM)Astek Wrote: well yeah i would, but im not making money off my programs so i don't really have money to be paying for theme's
So because you don't make money from it you can't justify to spend money on their hard work? meh, double standards.
so if you made a program, lets say a RAT, and i came to you and said 'hey, look, im not going to make any money from it' would you give it to me for free? no, no you fucking wouldnt.
(Dec 12, 2014 03:10 AM)Astek Wrote: that is some what true, but i dont make RATs etc, but all the programs i do make are free and open source
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it's the principle, rather than the object dude. people gotta live, so think before you pirate shit 😁
I would say so, i would defiantly purchase premium themes. No lie, i've been sitting here thinking why there are no site selling premium themes?
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