MaxB YABuzzTools: Theme Editor
Finally you've got the complete clickable theme editor! :) At this time, it's the best Buzz theme editor - the easiest for use and with the largest number of functions/options. Although there are already a few Buzz theme editors, I decided to make another one because none of them is the way it should be. Some have clickable interface, some have special features but none of them has it all - until now! YABuzzTheme Editor has all you can ask for.
First line of buttons: New, Open, Save, Save As... - I think that the button names speak for themselves. Just something about button New - you always start new theme that is based on some other theme (template) - you can choose among Buzz Default Theme, Current Buzz Theme and Themes in Buzz Themes Folder.
Second line of buttons: first five buttons are
the are very similar to Buzz interface: Pattern Editor, Machines, Sequence
Editor, Signal Analysis and Theme Info. If you click one of
them (or if you just like in Buzz press F2, F3 etc. the desired view is
selected), you get the view that looks like the same view in Buzz - just click on
color you want to change and select desired color. It's that simple! You can
also select color by clicking one of the color buttons at the bottom of the
tabsheet. There are also some other functions: Fade, Invert and Swap.
Fade - you can select color that you want to fade (ex. in Pattern Editor:
Background or Dark-Background or Very-Dark-Background), the amounth and the
direction of fade - you could select Dark-Background color and than
simultaniously fade-in this color to Background and fade-out this color to
Very-Dark-Background. When you move amount/direction slider, you also
preview colors which you'll get with selected amount/direction.
Invert - simply inverts color - usually is the best that the Text color
is inverted color of Background color.
Swap - only for Amplifiler Background and Handle in Machines view
- swaps these two colors.
Theme Info - here you can choose theme format. If you choose the first option, the only additional info saved in theme file is the date the theme was modified/saved and the editor signature (of this editor, of course :). If you choose the second option, you can enter some information about you (the author of the theme, e-mail, web site) and the theme you've made (title, descriptions, keywords) - it will be saved in CyanWerks CyanBuzzTheme almost-compatible format (CyanBuzz theme editor doesn't have e-mail field in info and has a lack of some features (color of Machine LED Borders). Anyway, it's not important if it is compatible with older theme editors because you currently use the best one.
Maintain - very useful part of theme editor - here you have the list of all themes in Buzz Themes folder - you can edit, delete, rename or import (this function actually just copies file to 'Buzz\Themes' folder) them and also you can set desired theme as the theme in Buzz.
Notice that those small squares on the line and the master border (Machines), on the place where two line are crossing (Sequence Editor) and on time and frequncy lines (Signal Analysis) are actually the squares for selecting colors of elements they are on because it would be hard to point with the mouse exactly to machine border which is only one pixel in width.