Fully Customizing My System

iOliverC
Boy have you come to the RIGHT place! These guys in here are some of the most talented themers around. First, you'll need a program to change themes. Try ThemeChanger. Second, you'll want themes to use (hehehe). Try Max's themes or stop by ResExcellence for more selections. You'll find themes from Swiz, Dace, Carbon, Max, Takashi Izawa and many others. Third, in order to change out the icons, you'll need a program called CandyBar (it's $12.95). And finally you'll want some cool icons. For that stop by Xicons or visit Rad-e8
I think you'll love Rad-e8's "Snow.E 2 icons".

Good luck and welcome!

Btw, as for theme choices. I use Max's Brushed, BBX Mercury X, Milk, and currently SmoothStripes. I also like Takashi Izawa's Alumite. Again, your taste and preferences may be different.

<shameless plug> And don't forget Mighty Mouse to change your cursors!

smeger
No shame at all. You worked hard on something and want others to use it and be compensated for it. One question for you. I absolutely love Squa Cursors from SoftshapeArt. I know others may disagree but I like them. How do I import these into Mighty Mouse?

I took a look at these, and it looks like they're in a proprietary binary format (means I can't tell how they're stored).

I suggest that you email the author of the XP program that they're designed for and explain the situation to him. If he's willing to document the format that the cursors are stored in and its not totally insane, I'll add support.

Good luck, and let me know if you find anything out!

smeger
I'll do that. Thanks.

GraphicConverter can open them.

No shame with that, Might Mouse rules
I have actually already paid for it, and I usually don't pay for sharware, so then you know it's good...

Good call! To import these cursors, I did the following:

• Download the cursors
• Drag the resulting .zip file onto Stuffit Expander to decompress it
• Open a .cur file using Graphic Converter.
• Choose "Save As" from the "File" menu and save the image as a TIFF.
• Drag the TIFF into Mighty Mouse.

You'll need to manually set the hotspot after you do this, and I didn't try any that were animated, so I don't know if they'll work. But I got the arrow imported!

smeger
Is this the way to import the Squa cursors into Mighty Mouse? I have never used GraphicConverter before. How do I open a .cur file?

It worked for me, but I'm not going to come out and officially say that it works because then I'd have to answer support email for it.

I just dragged the .cur file onto the Graphic Converter icon.

smeger & darkcore
Thank you for the tip about Graphic Converter. I did as you said and it worked beautifully!! Thanks again. Man, I LOVE my NEW cursors! WooHoo!!

Forgot to ask. How do I manually set the "hotspot"?

**[Edit:] Silly me, I found out how to do it. Wow, what a great program!