Due to time constraint with university, I used, for the GUI, a programming language that I know very well, and gives me the power to do the GUI that you see in mater of minutes (like really, minutes). The software is made in Flash (ActionScript 2.0), despite knowing C# and C++. I was also hopping to make the software DPI aware with the idea that, because Flash is vector based, everything will scale perfectly. Sadly, that didn't end up happening according to plan.
That means that I am stuck with it to be a 32-bit program as the program I use to make Flash 100% standalone and executable, is 32-bit, and that doesn't make 64-bit version. Contacting the company lead that they made their software part in Visual Basic, and they, apparently, can't make it happen. I guess that this is the problem when you pile up dependencies (live and learn). To extend Flash, I made a C++ plugins (System.dll), to allow the entire software to do it's job. That is why, if you don't have the VC++ redistributable files, the program partially work.
Scalable I can do, if anyone know how to make a manifest XML file that tells windows that the program is high DPI aware, and make it request credential elevation to the user as it does not, that will fix the blurry app. As for making making it scalable, this will allow everything to scale as you want, keeping everything sharp, as the entire GUI is vector based. If free time allowed, I could see in trying to find a way to see if I can get a flag of sort to tell me that the system is on a high-DPI setting, and than scale the window to a certain size so that the scaling by default is done for you. (or scrap it all, and convert it into C# or something, but that won't happen due to time constrain as mentioned).
The program assumes a certain level of Windows understanding, as it is a tweak tool, with no support, and 'use at your own risk', making me actually want people to troubleshoot any issues themselves, and detect if something is not right, it might be a tweak with this program the problem. Also, Aero Shake can't be disabled in Windows, beside group policies, which means that it can only be accessed in the pro version of Windows (Windows 7 professional, enterprise and ultimate, and Windows 8 pro and enterprise). But I'll see what I can improve in the description.
If they are people interested working in any way on this software, I can make it open source. As I doubt anyone has Flash, to even get started, to port it into a C# or C++, and/or make it better, I doubt anyone will acre to participate (I can certainly pitch in). I really don't have any time to really push it. A feature that was scrapped, due to time constrains, is the "extension" tab where it would offer a list of other people tweaks. For example, there was a tweak to offer the ability to turn on and off the touch screen. It used a program from someone else who allowed the ability to make this work. My software could access the author web site, download it, extract the files, and perform the entire configuration for you, all from a mouse click. But that is waaayy too time consuming to do for me. But if they are people willing, I have no problem in helping out making this a reality.
As for more condense information, I believe that this will make the software less inviting, and too cluttered. It also needs to be touch friendly, and fit with Windows 8 look and feel.
Also, I don't know what else to add.
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