The design of HMES has required the development of a large number of custom controls that provide input and visual feedback beyond what the standard Windows interface controls provide. This effort has been both tiring and rewarding. The biggest challenge has been to develop controls that function well with all of the supported Windows versions and their individual themes.
The current set of custom controls includes Glass Button, Color selection Button, Color selection ComboBox, Numeric TextBox, Angle and Direction indicator/selection controls, Spline graph editor, Altitude graph display, Histogram graph display, 3D border container, Text label with separator line, horizontal and vertical gradient panels, plus the massively featured 2D/3D preview rendering control and the main 2D/3D viewport control.
A future version design idea is to incorporate a better toolbar ribbon system that replaces the current standard toolbar.
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