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NetworkShadow · Aug 6, 2004, 05:29 PM

Ok I'm trying to update "BlueMetal" (it's more purple looking to me) by Takashi Izawa for use with panther.

It seems easy enough to tweak except for the MenuEnhancer resources that don't get imported into my guiKit no matter what I do (I've asked Jason about it)... Anyway Jason says "Resourcer" and the MenuEnhancer templates are needed to import them. I don't know where to get Resourcer or what to do with it...

Thanks in advance,
--NetworkShadow

Rosyna · Aug 6, 2004, 06:31 PM

Originally posted by NetworkShadow:
Anyway Jason says "Resourcer" and the MenuEnhancer templates are needed to import them. I don't know where to get Resourcer or what to do with it...

I believe Jason says Resorcerer...

d4nth3m4n · 06:51 PM

menu enhancer templates? does that mean you could gui kitty a theme (like titanium 7) with menu enhanced stuff and copy all the elements over top of all the theme elements? i dont know how else you would get the sub 200 pxm#s

[Edit] and by ppt, i meant pxm

NetworkShadow · Aug 6, 2004, 06:37 PM

I've got the other main problem with using it in Panther fixed already:

I'm working on the finder buttons next, and then a Safari skin.

If I can get the MenuEnhancer imported it'll be worth using again.

NetworkShadow · 06:49 PM

Originally posted by Rosyna:
I believe Jason says Resorcerer...

Ah yes I found it: http://www.mathemaesthetics.com/ResorcererIndex.html and have no clue what to do from there.

digitaljames · Aug 6, 2004, 07:14 PM

Originally posted by NetworkShadow:
MenuEnhancer resources that don't get imported into my guiKit no matter what I do Thanks in advance,
--NetworkShadow

If you apply the theme and log out, and then create a new theme guiKit with Themepark, merge with installed elements and add the menu enhancer option they should appear in the Tpark file...or am I not understanding you? You want to add in the aqua, clear and graphite menu states right?

NetworkShadow · Aug 6, 2004, 07:39 PM

Originally posted by digitaljames:
If you apply the theme and log out, and then create a new theme guiKit with Themepark, merge with installed elements and add the menu enhancer option they should appear in the Tpark file

I did merge the theme with my .tpark, and no the MenuEnhancer elements don't import no matter what I do because it's a Jag theme.

You want to add in the aqua, clear and graphite menu states right?

All the MenuEnhancer elements.

efuseakay · Aug 6, 2004, 09:51 PM

Originally posted by NetworkShadow:
I've got the other main problem with using it in Panther fixed already:

I'm working on the finder buttons next, and then a Safari skin.

If I can get the MenuEnhancer imported it'll be worth using again.

Please make iChat buttons too... and an iTunes skin if u can? Thanks for updating this theme... I've missed it!

digitaljames · Aug 6, 2004, 10:06 PM

Seems to import them fine for me.....

NetworkShadow · Aug 6, 2004, 10:12 PM

Did you actually try looking at the elements? What does your menu bar look like? I really doubt it looks like this: (What the menus should look like)

NetworkShadow · Aug 6, 2004, 10:15 PM

Originally posted by efuseakay:
Please make iChat buttons too... and an iTunes skin if u can? Thanks for updating this theme... I've missed it!

I'll email you a copy, I don't want to distribute it publicly without permission. (I'll also look into that if I get the menus working.)

digitaljames · Aug 6, 2004, 10:24 PM

Originally posted by NetworkShadow:
Did you actually try looking at the elements? What does your menu bar look like? I really doubt it looks like this: (What the menus should look like)

I suspect that SS can't properly transfer the special Jag elements when it imports the .dtla. You'll probably have to manually drag them from the .dtla into the new guiKit themepark file. Just guessing here though I do see the menu enhancements in the .dtla file though.

VxWolfxV · Aug 6, 2004, 11:22 PM

Originally posted by NetworkShadow:
I'll email you a copy, I don't want to distribute it publicly without permission. (I'll also look into that if I get the menus working.)

Could you email me a copy as well? I've been waiting for this theme to be updated...

smeger · Aug 6, 2004, 11:37 PM

ShapeShifter dumps the layo resources when it updates a Jag theme for Panther. There are a couple of good reasons behind this.

You might be able to make this work by enabling MenuEnhancer in your new TP theme and importing the menu enhancer resources. If that doesn't work, you'll need to get the graphics in place, then export a guiKit, decompile it using guiKitty, manually copy/paste in the appropriate layo resources for MenuEnhancer (don't know the IDs offhand), then recompile using guiKitty.

DON'T just copy in all of the layos, all Carbon apps will crash if you try to install the theme. Only the MenuEnhancer ones.

Yuck, btw...

NetworkShadow · 12:25 AM

Originally posted by digitaljames:
I suspect that SS can't properly transfer the special Jag elements when it imports the .dtla

Yes that's why I posted this topic asking for help. You say I could drag and drop them into my new guiKit?

VxWolfxV: no prob

lol don't like the theme smeger? I'm not sure if I love it or hate it myself... Just felt like updating it to see. I'm thinking of doing a hi-light color mod btw since the pink/red is kinda strong.

Well I've been able to get most of the correct graphics pasted into the right resources using Max's AA theme as a template... just missing the left menu cap it seems because AA doesn't use the same kind of cap. Not sure what to do about that... Think I'll be able to fix that with guiKitty?

What it should look like (Jag version):

The metal windows are going to need a lot of work... the widgets just don't work with a flat window.

smeger · Aug 7, 2004, 12:43 AM

Originally posted by NetworkShadow:
lol don't like the theme smeger? I'm not sure if I love it or hate it myself... Just felt like updating it to see.

Heh, no, I was "yuck"ing the process of updating it, not the theme itself.

I think you need to get the layo pasted in to fix the menu cap problem.

NetworkShadow · Aug 7, 2004, 01:24 AM

Originally posted by smeger:
Heh, no, I was "yuck"ing the process of updating it, not the theme itself.

Oh ok.

I think you need to get the layo pasted in to fix the menu cap problem.

Anyone care to give me a step-by step on how that works? I'm not quite up to speed with how to make a theme yet, this is a practice run for when I start making my own.
There obviously are at least 2 missing resources so I can't even paste the right graphic in.