Creating Themes Guide

[Blackosx]

Hi I checked it out... I already have boot banner set to no.. it's loading something else that flashes on for a bit and then goes away.

I see. And there's no way you can read what it says or take a photo of it?
So going back to your original post, this only happens when you have changed a theme, and not using the original theme?

[phattbam]

it flashes by really quickly. I'm not sure if it's just displaying what's loading onto my computer.

[Blackosx]

it flashes by really quickly. I'm not sure if it's just displaying what's loading onto my computer.

You can try asking Chameleon to use verbose mode and wait before continuing to show you the messages by either type this option at the chameleon boot prompt like:

-v Wait=y

or add the following key/string to your com.apple.Boot.plist

<key>Wait</key>
<string>y</string>

Then booting in Verbose mode.

[Enzo]

Not sure if I missed this but,
What is the key "Enabled" for? The default theme has a string of "No" and some themes are set to "yes"

Also, I did notice the default theme uses a device selection of 112x112 while all the device icons were 96x96 IIRC. Lastly, not a big deal, but I think I noticed fonts being rendered a little bigger than average. Maybe it's Fontmaker app/site linked here?

[Blackosx]

Not sure if I missed this but,
What is the key "Enabled" for? The default theme has a string of "No" and some themes are set to "yes"

Hi Enzo.

That's a good question as I don't know either - Anybody else know this?

Also, I did notice the default theme uses a device selection of 112x112 while all the device icons were 96x96 IIRC.

Yes it does, and I guess the reason you're telling me this is because (I have just checked) my guide says the device_selection must be equal size to the device graphics. Thanks I'll change that

Lastly, not a big deal, but I think I noticed fonts being rendered a little bigger than average. Maybe it's Fontmaker app/site linked here?

I am not sure what you mean here, but they seem to appear at the same size in Chameleon as they are in Photoshop when I create them? Can you show me an example?

[Enzo]

For Screen C, the menu. Do you mean the icons have to be 24x24? (I believe that's the default)

[Blackosx]

Hi Enzo

Yeah, 24x24 pixels is all we can use for the icons in the menu.
Unfortunately, the code for the GUI doesn't allow for anything different.

[Enzo]

I'm having some alignment issues here...

I'm hoping there's a fix for this, but I can't seem to control where the device is on the first screen, where it has the loading bar. Whenever I change the x/y pos for devices, it does work, but only for the second screen/options screen. Can I not move it in the first screen? I'm playing with much bigger icons, and it looks to be placed higher, maybe it uses the bottom edge to align it or something. Any help would be appreciated.

[Blackosx]

Hi Enzo

I know exactly the problem you describe as I also banged my head against a wall try to work out what was going on. But AFAIK there's nothing we can do to move it down with the current feature set of the code. Maybe it's time to open up a thread in the patches section and work out what needs changing in the source code?

[Enzo]

Perhaps! heh
Hopefully it's a simple fix. Currently, I am having trouble moving the logo horizontally as well. I will keep messing with it, but I think I may just have to ditch the logo =/.