[OPT HelpDesk] Theming
Posted: 19 Jan 2011, 08:33
I will be helping out with theming in this thread, so any questions strictly related to theming can be asked here.
Also, if you need a specific setting that does not yet exist to create a nice theme, you may ask for it here.
note: while creating the theme below, I got a little bug "access violation" myself, but I didn't really remember the steps to produce it and it hasn't occured since, so if you happen to get an error, I believe it was while switching themes, let me know.
Theme examples
With winrar, simply place the zip file in the themes folder, rightclick and press extract here. Whatever method of unzipping, important is that you create a file structure like optprogramfolder\themes\themename\theme.opttheme
Overlays example: http://updates.onlineplaytable.com/downloads/themes/overlays.zip
Overlays are used to finish up backgrounds. Say you have a nice image for your messages box and it needs to stretch out, you can use overlays to create a "painting frame" like effect. Overlays have a prefix defined in the object theme settings. Then appended to that prefix will be the numbers 1 through 9, with 1 being the overlay image for the top left corner, from left to right, down to 9 being the overlay image for the bottom right corner.
You do not have to create an image for each number, for example, only having an overlay image '5' would put the image over the background in the center. Overlays can also be used to create transparency, by creating corner images for 1, 3, 7 and 9 that have a rounded edge in the color of the transparent color (FF00FF preferred), you can create a rounded background.
Also, if you need a specific setting that does not yet exist to create a nice theme, you may ask for it here.
note: while creating the theme below, I got a little bug "access violation" myself, but I didn't really remember the steps to produce it and it hasn't occured since, so if you happen to get an error, I believe it was while switching themes, let me know.
Theme examples
With winrar, simply place the zip file in the themes folder, rightclick and press extract here. Whatever method of unzipping, important is that you create a file structure like optprogramfolder\themes\themename\theme.opttheme
Overlays example: http://updates.onlineplaytable.com/downloads/themes/overlays.zip
Overlays are used to finish up backgrounds. Say you have a nice image for your messages box and it needs to stretch out, you can use overlays to create a "painting frame" like effect. Overlays have a prefix defined in the object theme settings. Then appended to that prefix will be the numbers 1 through 9, with 1 being the overlay image for the top left corner, from left to right, down to 9 being the overlay image for the bottom right corner.
You do not have to create an image for each number, for example, only having an overlay image '5' would put the image over the background in the center. Overlays can also be used to create transparency, by creating corner images for 1, 3, 7 and 9 that have a rounded edge in the color of the transparent color (FF00FF preferred), you can create a rounded background.