[SubGeniux]

Hi,

I've been doing a bit of tinkering with a theme I'm coming up with just now and was thinking about trying to do somethign similar to the alternate line colour in list view that was in OS9, also the same kinda view that we see in iTunes, address book, the download window in Safari and so on. I've trawled through the extras resource and such like but couldn't really find anything that pointed to the list view window background, thought I could just create a grow item with 2 colours for it.

I think it would be nice to have that type of view back in, and judging by the way all the iApps and such like, I think Apple might put it back in for 10.3.

cheers for any help

[CarbonG4]

Hey SubGeniux, you won't find any resources to do what you're describing in the Extras.rsrc file. Themeing in OS X is quite a bit different than it was in OS 9, but I'm sure you already realized this.

Here are two ideas to do what you're wanting if you really really must have the alternating list background:

1) download PathFinder and use it in place of the Finder:


-- or --

2) set your Finder view to icon, icon size to 16, label position to right, and then at the bottom of the view setup window select 'picture' and make a custom image that has the alternating grid you want that will line up nicely behind the icons:


Happy themeing dude
//Carbon

[SubGeniux]

Cheers for that, Carbon. I downloaded the trial of pathfinder, pretty amazing stuff, fast too and does a bit more than the ol' finder. Never thought about doing the change in Icon view, wonder if we'll get to see background changes for list view in 10.3.

thanks again.