Intel > ShapeShifter > themes > Quicktime ?

#1 Tue, 21 Jun 2005 - 16:36 MacNN

I am curious now. With Apple going to Intel, will shapeShifter will be able to skin Quicktime as itunes?

I have always using Shinobi theme and I have changed Quicktime with Titanium file so it will match with Shinobi.

So my question is this, Will Shapeshifter be able to skin Quicktime too?

Thanks,
Christian

#2 Tue, 21 Jun 2005 - 17:44 MacNN

Processor architecture has nothing to do with what can or cannot be modified in the GUI

#3 Tue, 21 Jun 2005 - 17:45 MacNN

I don't really understand your question. Currently, ShapeShifter doesn't skin QuickTime Player on Tiger because of the large changes that occurred between QuickTime 6 and QuickTime 7. Switching to Intel is not a factor at all.

#4 Tue, 21 Jun 2005 - 19:43 MacNN

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Originally Posted by smeger

o.k. my question is this. When will ShapeShifter will change Quicktime as itunes?

Christian

#5 Tue, 21 Jun 2005 - 19:56 MacNN

if you mean will QT be themeable and be able to get the look that itunes has that is different from the normal look i guess so but it will be more work for those creating themes.

#6 Tue, 21 Jun 2005 - 20:33 MacNN

Actually I don't see why it would... iTunes is changed differently because it's made in a really annoying way. Quicktime used to be similar, but is now a more normal app, so it should behave like any other app.

#7 Tue, 21 Jun 2005 - 21:50 MacNN

QuickTime Player will be skinnable again using ThemePark and ShapeShifter once I've updated ShapeShifter's infrastructure in such a way that it can sanely handle large internal changes between different versions of the same application. QuickTime Player changed completely between version 6 and version 7 - it's a whole new app now and the previous skin resources no longer make sense.

Quicktime Player, in versions prior to version 7, was somewhat of a bitch to skin for two reasons - it was an old, crufty Carbon application, and it was already skinnable - it was actually possible to distribute a movie that included a customized player skin. I've never actually seen one, but it was technically possible to do. I don't believe that it still is, now that QT 7 has been released, although I'm not 100% sure.

iTunes is a completely different story. It's difficult to skin because it's an old crufty Carbon app, but more importantly, because it's an old, crufty Powerplant Carbon app. PowerPlant was an application framework distributed by Metrowerks back in the day, and there was a time when the majority of Macintosh apps used it, before the release of OS X. Since iTunes uses PowerPlant, it does things completely differently from every other app on your hard drive.

#8 Tue, 21 Jun 2005 - 22:56 MacNN

Smeger,

Thanks

Christian