How do I make a theme?
-
onecircles
- Posts: 335
- Joined: Wed Mar 26, 2014 7:07 am
How do I make a theme?
I'm less technically gifted than all you geniuses, but I've wondered for a long time if building a theme for buzz might be within my grasp. I have some experience programming in python and some visual programming languages. I imagine that there's some stylesheet-ish kind of stuff you have to do? But I am probably demonstrating ignorance here. Anyways I'm a painter, and I used to do pixel art. I'd like to make a theme. Any tips on how to get started?
Re: How do I make a theme?
Well, I'm hacking around on a theme since this morning ... I remembered a guy (strobotone) you find him perhaps here on the forum, or on strobotonedotde ... who was deeply involved in the theme theme 
... I think you should grab an editor for XAML. The guy once mentioned KAXAML ... just google KAXAML ... and then you can start to edit a theme ... hope they are not copyright protected, in this case everyone would have to start from scratch ... edit:perhaps oskari can tell something about the c question ...
Exchanging the Machine view pictures, etc. seems to be easy, as they are stored in the theme folder of each theme, seems even paint should be enough for that purpose, you may know much more than me in this direction ....
Well, I'just edited some Hex things before, and so I just have been able to change the colour of some thing in the seq-view, I didn't find the right "bits" for the background of the pattern-editor, cause I do not like the colours of the ILKKE -machine extended theme just right for the pattern and sequence view ... hope it helps, others know much more, but Kaxaml seems to be a nice editor, btw the zipped version 1.0 runs more stable on my computer than the 1.8 ...
edit 21.10.2015: O.k., meanwhile I almost reached my aim, wlithout any coding-knowledge ... let's say a mod between two themes and my own ideas. Almost everything is customizable in the new Buzz. I had a look with a texteditor at the .col file from the iLKke theme, there he mentions in the beginning that it can be used with every color theme, so I had a look at the old tool "Themetweaker". The rest was done by editing and replacing some jpg- and png-files. And surely I had to change some colors by editing the Xaml-files in the above mentioned editor. Only thing I couldn't change was the colour of the background of the "fields" in the Wavetable view ... Finally I have a mod between my favorite theme night owl 2 by evelon and the iLKke theme, fine colors by evelon and a brilliant overall layout by iLKke ...
@ onecircles: Hope it helps, a person like you with some coding knowledge should be able to built a theme from scratch on his own ...
... I think you should grab an editor for XAML. The guy once mentioned KAXAML ... just google KAXAML ... and then you can start to edit a theme ... hope they are not copyright protected, in this case everyone would have to start from scratch ... edit:perhaps oskari can tell something about the c question ...Exchanging the Machine view pictures, etc. seems to be easy, as they are stored in the theme folder of each theme, seems even paint should be enough for that purpose, you may know much more than me in this direction ....
Well, I'just edited some Hex things before, and so I just have been able to change the colour of some thing in the seq-view, I didn't find the right "bits" for the background of the pattern-editor, cause I do not like the colours of the ILKKE -machine extended theme just right for the pattern and sequence view ... hope it helps, others know much more, but Kaxaml seems to be a nice editor, btw the zipped version 1.0 runs more stable on my computer than the 1.8 ...
edit 21.10.2015: O.k., meanwhile I almost reached my aim, wlithout any coding-knowledge ... let's say a mod between two themes and my own ideas. Almost everything is customizable in the new Buzz. I had a look with a texteditor at the .col file from the iLKke theme, there he mentions in the beginning that it can be used with every color theme, so I had a look at the old tool "Themetweaker". The rest was done by editing and replacing some jpg- and png-files. And surely I had to change some colors by editing the Xaml-files in the above mentioned editor. Only thing I couldn't change was the colour of the background of the "fields" in the Wavetable view ... Finally I have a mod between my favorite theme night owl 2 by evelon and the iLKke theme, fine colors by evelon and a brilliant overall layout by iLKke ...
@ onecircles: Hope it helps, a person like you with some coding knowledge should be able to built a theme from scratch on his own ...