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Home » U++ Library support » Look and Chameleon Technology » A little theming
Re: A little theming [message #18909 is a reply to message #18818] Fri, 31 October 2008 14:40 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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cbpporter wrote on Fri, 24 October 2008 05:01

OTOH, I've been thinking a lot about the previous idea with an achieve with and XML and a bunch of pictures. It would make the theme more editable by the non technical people. Sure, TheIDE's image editor is quite excellent after you get used tot it (but I did manage to crash it once), but you have to write code to apply those images and extra information to a theme and export it as a shareable binary. With and XML, people could edit it easily and use their favorite image editing program. Yet, U++ theming engine is not really targeted by anybody else than us, and I think we can handle a little code Smile.



Not a bad idea. IMO, it should be possible to do this on top of existing chameleon.

In fact, the most simple thing to do (about 20 lines of code) is to add import/export of Ctrls.iml (to/from directory with .png files). Add one .png, put hotspots in the name somehow and you are quite configurable... (minus those pesky details....)

Mirek
 
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