Alpha Five Version 11 Feature Peek #32: How to change the look and feel of your entire app with just a few clicks

I might not know which patterns to mix or what shoes to wear, but I do know how to dress up my apps with Alpha Five Version 11's project styles.

We've designed 12 different styles specifically for Version 11, but the options don't stop there. The new style builder also allows you to roll your own styles into your apps. Of course, that's not including all of the styles that were designed for Version 10 and earlier, which are still available.

But with today's feature peek, we're going to show you how we've taken project styles to the next level by making it easy for you to transform the look and feel of your application in just a few clicks, and all in one place. At the end of the day, we've made using project styles more comprehensive, faster, and simpler.

This video debuts a new feature in Version 11 that allows you to set the style of the components used in a project, all in one convenient place. This is helpful because when you normally create a component, Tabbed UI, etc., you would have to specify the style name for each.

But Version 11 supports the ability to set the style name to project style. By doing this in all your components, you can head to the project style option in the project properties dialogue window and set it to whatever you'd like. In Selwyn's example, he enters "GrGray," a cosmetic change that will set the table to gray. You'll get to see that in working preview.

Selwyn goes back into the project properties windows to show the other color options he could have gone with by hitting the button that brings up the selector, which is to the right of his current entry. This window gives you a close look at all the different project styles you can access in Version 11, and this is just the color customization! Selwyn will take you through a couple of different colors in the video.

But no matter how big your completed project is, you can always head back into the project properties window to customize all of your styles on all your components at once.

There's more on the project properties dialogue component, but you'll have to tune in to the video to get those details.

After watching, tell us how you plan to style your apps in a comment.