[havannas]

Here is my stupid app.
What does it do? Not much right now.
Currently it works as follows: the top left grey square closes the window, the bottom red square acts as a resize widget, and everywhere else(lightgrey) acts as a draggable area. It is based a lot on the RoundTransparent window example. My goal (maybe) is to create a template that developers can use, that will allow them to have a preference panel that will let the user to toggle between an Aqua and an Os9ish UI. In addition you could allow the user to choose a mishmash of the two, or even new behavoirs. For example a user could choose to have an Os9 themed window(with or without dropshadow) that could be draggable by either just its title / title+borders / or anywhere that is not otherwise active. The window could have windowshade or minimize to dock as its minus widget. If they still exist it could access the 'darkPlatinum' rsrc.... otherwise a path to the users os9 resources could be used... if neither of those is available it would go to a 'platinum evoking' theme. This might also be a good chance to allow themes, at least in apps that use this template. Kinda like kaleidiscope but only supported by apps built ontop of the template. So what do you think?.... I know thats a mouthful... especially from someone who's programming skills are only slightly better than pitiful. Not sure what I'm looking for... encouragement, help, and good thoughts(for or against) I guess.

Download app as .dmg

[codrieux]

Cool idea. May I suggest that you make it so people can make themes for it? Maybe make it a framework people could base their application out of, or even make some Interface Builder plugins, geesh I dont know but this is certainly an interesting idea.

One nice thing would be to make it very easy for someone to make new themes, and use XML based theme plugins. Maybe even place a themes folder under /Library/Application Support/Themes or ~/Library/Application Support/Themes or /Library/Themes or even (if you're wild enough) ~/Library/Themes

I guess I need to think about this idea a little more, to offer more suggestions.