Chameleon v1.0 released.

[Fatman_do]

So will this allow one to 'apply' a BaseSkin theme and then change it using the Appearance Manager?

Yes, this should give nearly full AM support, the only exception is mainmenu SkinEffects on ThemePacks. I will update the "Patch" to fix this as well later today.

Now, not every background variation and buttons are included for Appearance Manager support, but a large variety are. I will include those in the updated patch also.
(All the user has to do is add Backgrounds and Buttons in the proper Appearance directory structure. See exsisting structure for naming conventions.)

[Fatman_do]

Rev. A of the patch is ready, but is not uploaded (wiki issues). As soon as I am able to, I will post it to the wiki. It will be identified as (Rev. A) so it will be easier to know when it gets added.

Features include modifications to the Main Menu skin.xml file to accomodate "se.png" and "..\MainBackground.jpg"

I also "fixed" it so it will not create Advisor themepack folders for themes that are not installed.

[Fatman_do]

This is a direct link to the wiki dowload for the ThemePacks Patch file.

Run this theme to make themes compatible with Chameleon. Only themes posted on or before this date of the post are supported in Rev.A

Advisor.ChameleonPatch.zip

[Fatman_do]

Fatman_do, there appears to be an issue with listviews when applying themes. They appear to be misplaced like there is an offset within the images. I don't believe the Chameleon skin has taken this into consideration.
[COLOR="Blue"]
Yes, you are right Fatman_do, I did not consider 3d graphical effect and the need for image offsets. I will fix this and release a Chameleon update later this week.[/COLOR]
[COLOR="RED"]
Thanks Fatman_do.[/COLOR]

Who said that?????? :eek:

[Old Dog]

Who said that?????? :eek:

U_do!

[Fatman_do]

Updated all xml to fix a problem with listview positions with themepacks.
Added support for larger text strings for screen titles.
Added Photos plugin
Added Screen Saver plugin

I currently have issues with Video Archiver and MusicPlayer on my "Dev" PC so those skins are not updated. I will attempt these later. Also, Xrecord is a bear to skin, have to spend more time with it and see if I can sort things out.

I will next be starting on:

My Music 3 (RC1 from reven's site)
My Videos 5 (Beta 4 from reven's site)

(These are not ready for release yet, I just want to get a start on them and maybe help him beta test and give feedback. I am not the best beta tester in the world, but I try everything to a certain degree when skinning.)

[Fatman_do]

Chameleon skin will be moving to a modular system.

The upcomming v1.2 version will be just a "Core" download, which only contain the default skin files. Additional plugins will have separate PluginPack downloads that will contain the skin files needed. All PluginPacks will have and installer with an uninstaller program placed into the GBPVR directory. Version 1.2 will only be released once all PluginPacks are uploaded.

For info on what this modular system is, see this wiki page and this Forum thread.

The first plugin to roll out for Chameleon this way is MusicLibrary2

Give it a try, even if you don't use Chameleon and check out the installer and uninstaller feature.

I included the .nsi nullsoft installer script in the GBPVR directory as a template if anyone wishes to check that out.

[Fatman_do]

Appearance and ThemesManager will still be "Core" for Chameleon

[Fatman_do]

Nothing dramatic really from 1.0 (Core-modular design introduced, most non-standard plugins with a "hi-vis" 16pt font average).

I haven't even finished all the plugins I wanted to have done by now.

The odd thing is. A week ago it showed 80+ downloads. Now it is near 700. There has to be a problem with the counter, no way there were that many downloads in a few days?

(edit, now over 700 as 20 downloads in the last five minutes? Is there some kind of web-bot trying to download it and failing and re-trying?)

[MixMan]

The same happened to the MCE2 Blue theme, on the wiki....+500 DLs in on one day.
I think that someone is beeing funny ?