Tony,
I've also encounterd people here saying that the windows and dialogs WinBatch displays look a bit dated.
I don't think he is talking about "Modern UI" / Tiles / "Metro" or whatever, I think he just means that it would be great for the current desktop based interfaces (Dialogs) that we create in Winbatch to look less Windows 95 and more Windows 7 ish.
That is, provide the style (I think it requires manifests within the exe to use the newer ComCtl32.dll v6 instead of v5??
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb773175(v=vs.85).aspx and
http://www.heaventools.com/PE_Explorer_resource_XP_Wizard.htm )
Also provide the extra common controls that are found in many GUIs .. Tabs, TreeViews, Progress, Sliders etc that are missing
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/desktop/aa511482 like we finally got with the ListView er.. ReportView... thank you for that.
I'm sure you know all about it being the guru you are, and I'm sure there is a good reason why,... I'm guessing backward compatibility??
(I think I tried forcing it once a few years ago on XP with the old external manifest text file trick and it crashed badly)
Anyway, I too think it is time for a GUI overhaul (I have for a few years), and even if it means WinBatch has to drop support for older Windows OS versions (pre XP?) then I think that is kind of OK isn't it?? -- People can still use their current versions on older versions of Windows - what new functionality is likely to be useful on them anyway?
I've got a lot of other ideas and opinions of what I'd like to see in WinBatch too, but I know opinions are individual, and can come across as complaints... (which is the last thing I want them to be).
All-in-all I think you guys have produced a fantastic product and your support and help on the board is second to none.Just hope we can all continue to ride the OS change nightmare that is part of Microsoft's "vision" and come out the other side a little better off having WinBatch around.