Festus440

I have an alpha version of the ZLauncher ThemeMaker 2.0 available if anyone would like to do some testing. (Since ZZtechs is on holidays, perhaps this is a good time!)

I know that a lot of the people who have been making ZLauncher themes have gotten use to using Code Warrior, which is fine. I certainly can’t knock Code Warrior. I still feel the ThemeMaker program I’ve been working on has some advantages, especially for anyone who feels intimidated by Code Warrior.

Currently it should work for:
High Density Palm OS 5 (16 bit)
High Res Sony 16 bit
High Res Sony 8 bit
High Res Sony 4 bit
Standard Res 16 bit
Iconsets


What it doesn’t do:
Theme Preview

I understand that it’s a nice feature, but it’s difficult to implement because there are so many icons (about 300+ per color depth). I won’t say I’ve completely ruled out the possibility, but it would be a major task. Comments?

What it does do:

1) Most bitmaps are named and categorized. No cut and paste or searching for “Tbmp5462”. Not a big deal, but should save some time.

2) Color picker for setting the default UI colors. No way to do this in Code Warrior that I know of.

3) Fields for entering theme comment, default back image, and icon set. (This can be done in Code Warrior (Constructor) in the strings section.) These are saved and loaded with each project. (See next)

4) Projects. The program can create directories and fill them with the default icons. Projects also have their own UI color table, theme comments, etc. You can also change the default icons that the program uses to create new projects.

5)Compression. I’m happy to say that compression for the ThemeMaker is as good as Code Warrior. (Often the files are even a little smaller because Code Warrior adds some things that aren’t needed for theme files.) This is because I’ve written my own compression routines. The program tries all the compression methods, and then keeps the smallest. And yes, this includes Packbits compression for all color depths including 16 bit.

So, if anyone has some time and would like to play with this thing, give me a shout.

Here’s a couple of screen shots:

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Schtunks

I'm ready to test... If you have a link for downloading it !

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davidcooney

Yeh i am ready to give it a go !

mail me !

honolulu

I'm ok for testing the alpha realese

a.cortado@wanadoo.fr

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Honolulu 3D

Honolulu's zlauncher skin

kss55442

Ditto. Please post a link for downloading.

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Festus440

OK.

Go here:

http://festus440.happypalm.com/


Go to the bottom left side of the page and click on:

ZLTMA2

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honolulu

I have a problem. (I don't know if I must say that or by mail here)

when I load a bmp in photoshop and that I make "save" afterwards in the skin the bmp is shifted.

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honolulu

ok I resolve my problem (I must select 24bit for the bmp)

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Festus440

It's fine to post any issues here.

I assume that it loaded ok before you saved the bitmap.

It looks like the bitmap you were working on was the "TitleBarBackground.bmp"

If you don't mind trying a test, open the rcp file with notepad. It Looks like you were doing the Palm OS5 theme, so it would be in the Bitmaps folder: ZLauncherThemeTemplate_Hi_64K.rcp

Then change the "NOCOMPRESS" option to COMPRESS, like this

BITMAPFAMILYEX ID 5001
BEGIN
BITMAP "Bitmaps/HR64K/Images/Panels/TitleBarBackground.bmp" BPP 16
COMPRESS DENSITY 2
END

This will cause PilRc to do the compression, and the ThemeMaker will not try to compress it. (For more info on changes and additions to the rcp format, see the "How it Works.doc" in the install directory.

It might also help if you send me the bitmap that you modified.

I'll do some more checking in the morning.

By the way, I can't seem to get ZLauncher to work in the Palm Simulator. It crashes when I tried it on two different machines.

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Festus440

Oops. I'm too slow

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honolulu

one problem, when I put a color in "tab back" is not the same color on the simulator.

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Unregistered

The colors that you assign don't show up untill you go into "Color Setup" and click on "Default".

It seems like it should automatically load them when you select a theme, but it doesn't.

Did you try that?

Festus440

Forgot to log in!

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bartsimp

the link for downlooad doesn't work anbymore.
Any clue why?