AROS Window Themes

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Reply #120 on: July 19, 2023, 11:33:45 AM
thank you miker

No problem. The STitlebar.zip I posted is all white to match your new logo.

My transparent logo of "Kitty'" can be used on different color bars, which then is the same logo I use on the GRUB menu of AROS One

Did you post the logo or just the screenshot?

Maybe I missed it.



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Reply #121 on: July 19, 2023, 11:42:48 AM
I had attached a link where you can find all the AROS logos, of the "Transparent" ones you see in my screensht which one should I flood you (small one for the bar, or the big one)?




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Reply #122 on: July 19, 2023, 11:46:20 AM
I had attached a link where you can find all the AROS logos, of the "Transparent" ones you see in my screensht which one should I flood you (small one for the bar, or the big one)?




Small one for the bar please.



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Reply #123 on: July 19, 2023, 11:56:14 AM
I am sending you what you see in the screenshot in 2 sizes 46x28 and 35x20


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Reply #124 on: July 19, 2023, 12:19:02 PM
The Geometric Blue Theme is finished.

Here it is if you'd like to try it.  ;)



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Reply #125 on: July 19, 2023, 01:02:54 PM
This is what aros_geometric blue looks like.

In sequence geometric red will be next, then orange, green & of course purple. There are five in this series using Tiffany colors.
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Reply #126 on: July 19, 2023, 03:49:31 PM
The Geometric Blue Theme is finished.

Here it is if you'd like to try it.  ;)

Geometric Blue Works well, full Theme
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Reply #127 on: July 20, 2023, 09:08:51 AM
The New Plastic Blue theme is ready.

The theme "templates" all start with blue because it's easy to make color variations based on the base blue version. There are now twelve color variations for os4_classic, os4_modern, os4_plastic, new_plastic & lite_plastic themes. Thats a total of sixty themes. There are five color variations for the Geometric series (Tiffany colors). So that's sixty-five!

My goal is "100 AROS Themes" for everyone to use. They will be posted on AROS Archives & Aminet when complete.



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Reply #128 on: July 20, 2023, 09:10:47 AM
Here is the New Plastic Blue theme.

It's Plastic because of the convex Titlebar & it's New Plastic because of the style of the black outline Titlebar gadgets.  :)



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Reply #129 on: July 20, 2023, 10:12:50 AM
The Geometric Red Theme is also complete.

Here is a sample screenshot.



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Reply #130 on: July 20, 2023, 10:14:20 AM
Here is the Geometric Red Theme for AROS.

Beware! It is a very bright red.  :)



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Reply #131 on: July 20, 2023, 02:21:52 PM
This is the Modified Tiffany Theme ( aka Reverse Tiffany).

It's almost ready. It just needs some small refinements.  ;)

In the image attached you can see the Full Tiffany to the right of the actual screenshot of the Modified Tiffany theme . I'm beginning to comprehend what the data in the config file means. In the bar area of the config BarPre & BarPreGadget are the same value. They represent the left end cap of the TitleBar we wish to draw. The values are 0 4. But what does it mean? It's offset & length. At offset 0 copy 4 pixels.

We must first realize the values in bar section of the config text file in System inside our theme are not the co-ords we see on screen. These are the offsets & lengths as measured from the original Titlebar graphic located in System/Titlebar.

For the transition area just to the left of the TitleBar gadgets I got lucky. I measured the size of the transition in Paint as 21 x 29 pixels. I assumed it would cover at least two gadgets after the transition so I gave it another 45 pixels as fluff. So 21 + 45 = 67. Since the TitleBar graphic is only 268 x 29 pixels the transition starts at offset 201 & it extends at least 21 pixels.

In the config we see BarJoinBG which is the tileable area just before the right side gadgets. It just happens to be BarJoinBG = 200 40. Remember it's offset & length. So at offset 200 copy 40 pixels to underlay the transition area just before the end gadgets. That's perfect. Lastly, whether the transition curves one way or another it doesn't matter. We only care about the horizontal length of the transition area. So now we are ready to design an AROS Full Tiffany Theme.

But there's more to learn about the config & window themes.

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Reply #132 on: July 21, 2023, 05:08:53 AM
I am sending you what you see in the screenshot in 2 sizes 46x28 and 35x20

Thanks amigasystem :)



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Reply #133 on: July 21, 2023, 08:34:54 AM
For the AROS Tiffany Theme I'm not sure I'm satisfied with the look of the compound curves ( S-curves ) in the Titlebar graphics. They seem blocky instead of smooth.

What do you think about the curves ?
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Reply #134 on: July 21, 2023, 05:39:29 PM
Nice, actually the curves are not perfect, although my vision after laser surgery on one eye is not what it used to be, I see the straight lines slightly wavy.
If you attach Tiffany Theme I can try to see if it improves something on AROS One, maybe I try to play with some values !