[ZXspectrum]

I was wondering if anybody else encountered the same problem? It looks like In Tiger I can't change the background color of the finder sidebar anymore.

*Using themepark I am changing the color in:

Global Elements/Text Colors/Sidebar Background...also i am changing the Global Elements/Text Colors/List Background but with no luck.

Thanks,

P.s - strange but even just applying a theme in SS like Jetblack which suppose to have a black finder sidebar doesn't work anymore??? It’s just staying in its original white color.

[digitaljames]

from the author....

Originally Posted by smeger

Okay, so we're about a week into the Tiger Transition! Here's what's cropped up in that week bug-wise. Please feel free to chime in with more. Bugs only, please, new features won't be considered at this time:

ShapeShifter

• guiKit icon sets created on Tiger don't work - easy
• Finder sidebar/list/column view background colors - hard
• Address Book app skinning needs new implementation - medium
• NSStatusItem menu extra backgrounds broken - unknown
• Rollover menu selection in Spotlight menu extra results ugly (in 'mes' particularly) - very very hard
• iChat buddy list alternating row colors don't respect theme - easy
• Let ClearDock/TransparentDock override a theme's Dock customization - easy
• Finder copy dialogs and status bar don't respect theme backgrounds, some Finder text colors broken in Tiger - won't fix immediately
• Need better way to handle app skinning when the app's version number changes (generic app skinning depends on this) - hard

ThemePark

• Enable ability to skin any application - depends on SS issue noted above - just needs to be turned on
• Enable Quicktime Player skin - also depends on SS issue noted above - just needs to be turned on
• Find work-around for nasty-ass Apple bug regarding partial image transparency - hard

Mighty Mouse

• Resolve registration bug so MM is actually usable - medium
• Prefpane needs some serious TLC - Photoshop integration, users shouldn't need to know about images, masks and premultiplication. Longer-term goal

Now, what I've got laid out above is a ton of work and I'm coming off of about two and a half months of fifteen hour days getting everything working for Tiger, and I'm currently insanely not-kidding-around burned out. So I'll probably move sort of slowly for a week or so before I begin firing on all cylinders again.

This means I'd also like to know which of the above are most important to you, as I may not resolve all of the above before putting out a 2.1.1 release.

[ZXspectrum]

Originally Posted by digitaljames

from the author....

Thanks

[Anubis IV]

You could always try and use a hex editor to hack the Finder yourself. That's what I plan to do in a few days once I get the time. Of course, I'm bound to break the Finder a few times before I succeed, but still, it'll be fun.
EDIT: Ok, forget it being fun. I went through and changed every single 16-bit white color piece of code in Finder and got no visible results that I noticed. I don't know if that means that they switched to using 8-bit, that they extarnalized the value, that they stored it in some other way, or that I messed up and just missed it, but regardless, I'm probably just going to wait until Themepark can handle it for me. I had been hoping I'd find it first, but at this point, I'm willing to wait for smeger.

[crooner]

bump

Anyone have any more info on colorizing the tiger sidebar?

Any luck with hacking it?

Jason?

[smeger]

I have sidebar working fine in test builds, but since I use the same system for list and column view backgrounds and they are only sporadically working at the moment, I don't consider it "done".

I hope to include this in ShapeShifter 2.1.1, but it may have to wait for 2.2.

[crooner]

Originally Posted by smeger

I have sidebar working fine in test builds, but since I use the same system for list and column view backgrounds and they are only sporadically working at the moment, I don't consider it "done".

I hope to include this in ShapeShifter 2.1.1, but it may have to wait for 2.2.

Cool. Thanks for the update, Jason. Can't wait!