Originally posted by cntrytwist:
I'm attempting to design my own theme using Theme Park and Photo Shop. I started with the default ss template that came with Theme Park, but that doesn't appear to have all the elements that can be modified for example, iTunes resources. Is there a way to add things to a template or a theme file? I"m not talking about just the graphics, but more resources so I can modify more of the look and feel of the OS. Here are some of the ones I want to change.
-Dock Skin
-Startup Background (The aqua blue)
-Desktop picture
-System wide Icons
-Finder Toolbar(The window toolbar doesn't modify the finder toolbar)
Thanks for any help you can give.
It's possible to add these to your saved template, but it's sort of a "for advanced users only" sorta thing.
Open your saved template in a text editor such as TextEdit or (preferably) BBEdit. Alternately, you can use Apple's "Property List Editor", provided for free with Apple's Developer Tools. Search for the word "fileIdentifier". Look at a few of the results - hopefully, it'll make some sort of sense once you've looked at a few of 'em.
Now search for the word "fileList". This where the "fileIdentifier" is mapped to an actual file on your hard drive.
To add a new file to the template, you need to add a new entry to the "fileList" and then place an entry that references your "fileIdentifier" somewhere into the hierarchy of themable elements.
As I say, this is definitely not something for beginners. It's very easy to mess things up, so make sure you've got a backup of your saved template file. And make sure that when you save your changes, you save them as text, not as RTF.
To be honest, if you're new at this, you should probably just concentrate on theming what's actually in the template first - when you're done with all that stuff, post back and I'll provide better directions.
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