[wagmedia]

Here's what I wanted to ask:

I'm working on an orange colored theme and was wondering where do I change the title bar text color and the text color in the contextual menus.

Thanks!!

[CarbonG4]

Hey wagmedia, you're gonna run into problems with the titlebar text, only Carbon applications respect your color setting in your theme. This is what many themes like DSX suffer from, which rely on white titlebar text so that you can read the text against the black titlebars, however you cannot read the text in Cocoa apps because they remain black text on black titlebars. Since your titlebars will be orange you won't have any problems with the black text in Cocoa apps, it will still be readable... you just have to decide whether or not you want an inconsistency between Carbon and Cocoa apps if you choose to change the titlebar text color for Carbon apps.

Hope this helps
-Carbon

[wagmedia]

At the very least I'd like to change the color of the top menu bar. Where does this get changed?

[CarbonG4]

I should be able to give you a better answer than this but I'm not exactly certain, if memory serves me I think the menubar text color is located here:



Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

-Carbon

[Dace]

Here's a more detailed list, provided by Max (menubar text is in bold):

ID 384

Index 00 - Dialog Active Text Color
Index 01 - Dialog Inactive Text Color
Index 02 - Alert Active Text Color
Index 03 - Alert Inactive Text Color
Index 04 - Modeless Dialog Active Text Color
Index 05 - Modeless Dialog Inactive Text Color
Index 06 - Window Header Active Text Color
Index 07 - Window Header Inactive Text Color
Index 08 - Placard Active Text Color
Index 09 - Placard Inactive Text Color
Index 10 - Placard Pressed Text Color
Index 11 - Push Button Active Text Color
Index 12 - Push Button Inactive Text Color
Index 13 - Push Button Pressed Text Color
Index 14 - Bevel Button Active Text Color
Index 15 - Bevel Button Inactive Text Color
Index 16 - Bevel Button Pressed Text Color
Index 17 - Popup Button Active Text Color
Index 18 - Popup Button Inactive Text Color
Index 19 - Popup Button Pressed Text Color
Index 20 - Icon Label Text Color
Index 21 - List View Text Color (and Open/Save dialog list color)
Index 22 - Document Window Title Active Text Color
Index 23 - Document Window Title Inactive Text Color
Index 24 - Movable Modal Window Title Active Text Color
Index 25 - Movable Modal Window Title Inactive Text Color
Index 26 - Utility Window Title Active Text Color
Index 27 - Utility Window Title Inactive Text Color
Index 28 - Popup Window Title Active Text Color
Index 29 - Popup Window Title Inactive Text Color
Index 30 - Active menu title text color
Index 31 - Selected menu title text color
Index 32 - Disabled menu title text color (OS uses a lighter variation)
Index 33 - Active menu item text color
Index 34 - Selected menu item text color
Index 35 - Inactive menu item text color (OS uses a lighter variation)
Index 36 - Popup Label Active Text Color
Index 37 - Popup Label Inactive Text Color
Index 38 - Tab Front Active Text Color
Index 39 - Tab Non Front Active Text Color
Index 40 - Tab Non Front Pressed Text Color
Index 41 - Tab Front Inactive Text Color
Index 42 - Tab Non Front Inactive Text Color
Index 43 - Icon Label Selected Text Color
Index 44 - Bevel Button Sticky Active Text Color
Index 45 - Bevel Button Sticky Inactive Text Color
Index 47 - Finder file-item subtext (View options - Show Item Info)

[wagmedia]

Awesome, thanks both of you. That's exactly what I wanted to know. Maybe one of these years I'll finish the theme.

[Adam Betts]

Cool, can't wait to see what the theme looked like in Orange