Theminator is the newest appearance editor for the Mac OS. It allows editing of Mac OS 8.5 and Mac OS X Appearances (as far as you are able to edit Appearances on Mac OS X...). It's main advantage at this point over Theme Machine is the fact that it edits pxm#s and that it is pretty scriptable and has multiple undo implemented. I'd love to do more work on it, but I need encouragement. I must say that I'm getting pretty depressed with regards to Mac OS X Theme Support. See the Encourage Ware section below.
To use Theminator:
Mac OS 8.5 Theme:
-Start up Theminator
- Open 8.5 File
- Go to Palettes Menu
- Choose Show Pixmaps
- You can Paste Pixmaps in to the Image, Alpha and Mask areas
- Save when done
Mac OS X Theme:
- Take Extras.rsrc and make a backup copy of it.
- Convert it using QuickConvert
- Open converted file using Theminator
- Go to Palettes Menu
- Choose Show Pixmaps
- You can Paste Pixmaps in to the Image, Alpha and Mask areas
Take a look at some of the example scripts to see what you can do with scripts and Theminator.
Some of the other palettes work as well. The scripting interface is much more developed. If you can't do it throught the UI at this point, try scripting it and see what happens.
Please report any bugs you find to macthemes@mailandnews.com. If you really want them fixed, see the Encourage Ware section below.
Cheers,
Dave
NOTES: Keep the Base Themes and Scripts Folders in the Folder as Theminator
I'd like to thank Mr. Lobsinger, and Mr. Malik for their aid in times of need.
History:
• 0.5.1 Nov 4/00
- Got rid of need for the Speech Manager (i.e. don't need SpeechLib)
• 0.5 Nov 3/00
- Release
ENCOURAGE WARE
Theminator is being released as "Encourage Ware". I can't afford to work on it regularly unless I can show my fiancee that I'm actually making some cash from it. If there's a feature you want, or you want to encourage Theminator's development in general, send me some money and your request. Otherwise features will get added when I feel like it if they get added at all. I will fix/add features depending on what people want. For example, let's say you really want to be able to edit tmet resources (important for Mac OS X) send me $25 and you get 25 votes towards tmet resources. If someone else sends me $50 to fix up Sound file editing, I'll work on Sound files first. The item with the most votes, gets the most work. Hopefully this all makes sense. Once I stop getting votes/dollars, I assume that Theminator has pretty much all the features anybody ever wants. See below for some suggestions as to what I think needs work.
Why don't I open source it? I did with Theme Machine, and over the course of two years I have been virtually the only person to do any work on it. I found open sourcing Theme Machine more pain than it was worth. So I'll see if this works. If someone would seriously like to do work on the codebase (which is MUCH cleaner than Theme Machines) let me know, and we'll talk. Theme Machine is still open sourced, and available at www.macthemes.org. BTW Theme Machine and Theminator share no code that I know of (certainly not intentionally).
Paying for Theminator is fairly simple. Open the Register program that accompanies My Program. Enter your name, your email address, and put the amount you'd like to pay me in the "bonus" section for Theminator. Save or Copy or Print the data from the Register program and send the data and payment to Kagi. More specifics on the Register program to follow. Kagi handles my payment processing.
If paying with Credit Card, you can email or fax the data to Kagi. Their email address is sales@kagi.com and their fax number is +1 510 652-6589. You can either Copy the data from Register and paste into the body of an email message or you can Save the
data to a file and you can attach that file to an email message. There is no need to compress the data file, it's already pretty small. If you have a fax modem, just Print the data to the Kagi fax number.
Payments sent via email are processed within 3 to 4 days. You will receive an email acknowledgement when it is processed. Payments sent via fax take up to 10 days and if you provide a correct internet email address you will receive an email acknowledgement.
If you are paying with Cash or USD Check you should print the data using the Register application and send it to the address shown on the form, which is:
Kagi
1442-A Walnut Street #392-NF
Berkeley, California 94709-1405
USA
You can pay with a wide variety of cash from different countries but at present if you pay via check, it must be a check drawn in US Dollars. Kagi cannot accept checks in other currencies, the conversion rate for non-USD checks is around USD 15 per check and that is just not practical.
If you have a purchasing department, you can enter all the data into the Register program and then select Invoice as your payment method. Print three copies of the form and send it to your accounts payable people. You might want to highlight the line that mentions that they must include a copy of the form with their payment.
Kagi can not invoice your company, you need to act on my behalf and generate the invoice and handle all the paperwork on your end.
Please do not fax or email payment forms that indicate Cash, Check or Invoice as the payment method. As far as we know, there is still no technology to transfer physical objects via fax or email and without the payment, the form cannot be processed.
Payments send via postal mail take time to reach Kagi and then up to 10 days for processing. Again, if you include a correct email address, you will hear from Kagi when the form is processed.
