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Swizcore Studio themes

Swizcore Studio themes Troubleshooting 18 posts Dec 24, 2002 — Jan 16, 2003

#1 Tue, 24 Dec 2002 - 13:31

Since this is now a new GUI specific forum I would just like to state the following:

All SS themes which are still in development are now available for 10.2.3. All are refined as well. NeXT is the only theme I still need to update and release. Both of the Power themes are no longer in development due to my strong distaste for them.
Screenies:

SS ChosenOS

SimpleX

Pearl

Cappuccino

BeOSX

Go here for the product:
http://swizcore.com/SS/macOSX.php

#2 Tue, 24 Dec 2002 - 19:09

Good job! I hope themers will always have the will to update their themes every time Apple does an update. It must be a real pain, but it does give you the chance to do refinements I guess!

#3 Wed, 25 Dec 2002 - 04:38

look awesome!

#4 Sun, 29 Dec 2002 - 01:19

swiz what do you use to switch your themes? I just dled the updates but duality 4 m3 and 3.1 give me errors with your themes not being compatible.

#5 Sun, 29 Dec 2002 - 01:38

Quote:

Originally posted by wreks:
swiz what do you use to switch your themes? I just dled the updates but duality 4 m3 and 3.1 give me errors with your themes not being compatible.

I use ThemeChanger for all of my swithcing. Duality has an issue with the 10.2.3 tag in the .dlta which keeps it from switching.

ThemeChanger is available here:
http://www.dobbie.plus.com/mirrored/tc01v12.tar.gz

Its by Cliche' Software

BTW,
For anyone who doesn't know, the Support URL for my themes is:

http://swizcore.com/SS/support.php
If there is anything you need help with not listed, let me know and I will add it to the support area.

#6 Mon, 30 Dec 2002 - 15:03

hey swiz, nice job! are you still providing an aqua restore?

#7 Mon, 30 Dec 2002 - 17:44

Quote:

Originally posted by wil:
hey swiz, nice job! are you still providing an aqua restore?

Yes sir wil, all the themes come with my most current version of an Aqua restore which will revert comprehensively to Aqua from any SS theme.

#8 Mon, 30 Dec 2002 - 17:53

Quote:

Originally posted by swiz:
Yes sir wil, all the themes come with my most current version of an Aqua restore which will revert comprehensively to Aqua from any SS theme.

awesome!

#9 Tue, 31 Dec 2002 - 00:48

Awesome indeed. Looking good swiz.

#10 Tue, 31 Dec 2002 - 09:08

Hello, I was using your simple x theme, and then used your restore but my default folder icon has changed and did not change back. I then tried te aquafix app and it did not fix it back either. How can I restore the default folder icon?

OH! Also the "Home" Icon.

Thanks.

AH- Nevermind - I rebooted and they are restored. I was just logging out and back in that apparently did not work but rebooting did.

Thanks.

By the way swiz I still have a question about the arrow that you normally get when clicking on an item in the dock. In SimpleX it seems to be just a block, is that the way it is intended to look?

#11 Tue, 31 Dec 2002 - 10:31

Quote:

Originally posted by iamnotmad:
Hello, I was using your simple x theme, and then used your restore but my default folder icon has changed and did not change back. I then tried te aquafix app and it did not fix it back either. How can I restore the default folder icon?

OH! Also the "Home" Icon.

Thanks.

AH- Nevermind - I rebooted and they are restored. I was just logging out and back in that apparently did not work but rebooting did.

Thanks.

By the way swiz I still have a question about the arrow that you normally get when clicking on an item in the dock. In SimpleX it seems to be just a block, is that the way it is intended to look?

No its not supposed to be that way, it seems that is a hold over from the original SimpleX theme which I have not tracked down yet. The menucallout which is wha it is called is not that square that is appearing so I will have to do some troubleshooting to diagnose what it is.

#12 Tue, 31 Dec 2002 - 10:40

Here's a small pic of my desktop using a modified SimpleX theme with a menubar that has depth. I wasn't too keen on the flat menu bar so I gave it depth.

#13 Wed, 1 Jan 2003 - 13:14

Quote:

Originally posted by swiz:
No its not supposed to be that way, it seems that is a hold over from the original SimpleX theme which I have not tracked down yet. The menucallout which is wha it is called is not that square that is appearing so I will have to do some troubleshooting to diagnose what it is.

Hey swiz, thanks for the update. It looks like you reversed the arrow from the default, as in it points to the menu where aqua points to the icon. Is that the way you intended it? It looks pretty good that way actually! Although it looks like there is a funky shadow or somthing, a dark "fringe" kind of on the top edge. Check it out.

Thanks!

#14 Wed, 1 Jan 2003 - 13:21

Quote:

Originally posted by iamnotmad:
Hey swiz, thanks for the update. It looks like you reversed the arrow from the default, as in it points to the menu where aqua points to the icon. Is that the way you intended it? It looks pretty good that way actually! Although it looks like there is a funky shadow or somthing, a dark "fringe" kind of on the top edge. Check it out.

Thanks!

Is this when the dock is vertical or horizontal?

#15 Wed, 1 Jan 2003 - 13:47

Quote:

Originally posted by swiz:
Is this when the dock is vertical or horizontal?

Ah! I have the Dock on the left, so vertical. Just tried it with dock on the bottom and the arrows point toward the icon and there is no funky shadow fringe.

#16 Wed, 1 Jan 2003 - 13:56

Quote:

Originally posted by iamnotmad:
Ah! I have the Dock on the left, so vertical. Just tried it with dock on the bottom and the arrows point toward the icon and there is no funky shadow fringe.

Okey dokey. Whoops, Must have gotten them reversed in my hastey work yesterday. Update will be available later today. All my themes have updated as of tags next to them on my website now so, when you see that date with the time of day next to it, youll know its new.

#17 Wed, 1 Jan 2003 - 14:01

Quote:

Originally posted by swiz:
Okey dokey. Whoops, Must have gotten them reversed in my hastey work yesterday. Update will be available later today. All my themes have updated as of tags next to them on my website now so, when you see that date with the time of day next to it, youll know its new.

great! Thanks.

Another note on something to check out - it appears that your aqua restore does not fix the color of the clock in the menubar - it stays white.

#18 Thu, 16 Jan 2003 - 00:10

Just wanted to make it known that there is a support forum setup for all of my theme involvements now. I request that anyone who has issues with any of my works will visit the forum so all user experiences and resolutions are easily traceable by other users.
I also added the ChosenOS and NeXT preview's to the initial post in this thread for the sake of being comprehensive.

The forums are here:
http://swizcore.com/SS/phpBB2/

Theres also a forum for your screenshots of SS themes and a continually growing FAQ.