>>>What tools did you use for the interface changes??
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>>No tools at all. I just set the colors on my subclasses of each control.
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>>The icons are from some package I bought. I don't remember the name buy there are tons of them out there.
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>Very good. I will explore this option.

You might want to take a look at Bernard Bout's blog -- he's posted a lot of
visual-effects stuff over the years.

-m.