Anyone figure out how to get rid of the black line on the bottom of the menubar?  Has anyone discovered if the backdround of menus is in the SArtFile?  I have dug around and nothing looks like a semi-transparent swatch of white.

Did you guys find the file or image file that changes the menubar?
I want to make a theme, but I need to and want to change menubar...
but I want to keep the transparency..

1st-tiger wrote:

Did you guys find the file or image file that changes the menubar?
I want to make a theme, but I need to and want to change menubar...
but I want to keep the transparency..

102.png is the culprit.  If you usually have an opaque menubar, then this will do the trick.  Simply filling the image with a semi transparent fill will make it transparent (i.e. with the Photoship fill bucket set at 50% opacity).  So if your menubar is normally transparent, disable the option is syustem preferences, mod the forementioned image, patch SArtFile, log out and log back in.  Once that is done, your menubar will be drawn from SArtFile, not from CoreImage

Last edited by revision29 (Apr 29, 2008 8:36 am)

i always get this message when i'm trying to pack the new SArtFile.bin:

Invalid or corrupt jarfile artfiles

i even get this message when i don't edit one image. anyone could help?

I have created a workflow for automatically running the jar to recompile SArtFile, delete the one in CoreUI, copy the new SArtFile and rename it correctly.  If you download and use it, you must have a directory in your documents folder called artTools (the same that was created when you downloaded artTools).  In there you must have folder called artfiles (the one you would have created if you followed the Readme documents).  You must also have permissions to edit the resources folder of the CoreUI framework and its contents.  Given the above conditions, download and try this, or just see how I made it and make it as you want it.
http://www.revision29.com/mt/Patch_SArt … rkflow.zip

technici wrote:

thanks a lot! that worked great! that worked great!

does one already know where to find the spotlight button?

JUST...WOW....

This blue apple and menu highlights look lovely! Green looks good too with spotlight!

This is awesome!!

Someone please mirror the package, i can not download it from MediaFire. Been trying to download it for about 15 minutes.

From the screens, it's amazing. Neat!

revision29 wrote:

so wrote:

revision29 wrote:

I noticed that when you turn on the translucent menubar, the apple and menubar background are drawn with something else.  Turn it off in sys pref, log back in and you should see a new apple if you changed it.

hmm, what about ppc users? we don't have that option, only the "on" apple has changed after modding both "off" and "on". hmm.

I am a PPC user myself.  I dug around on a MacBook to see what plist cahnges when the system preference to turn off menubar translucency is triggered.  I then made the same modification on my system and thus was using the apple and background drawn from whatever draws the translucent, but mine were opaque.  When I toggled the option (editing the plsit) during my testing of patches to the SArtFile, I noticed some odd things which eventually led me to find the background for the menubar of us who have a permanantly opaque menubar.  But I ended up having to turn off the translucent option in the plist for my apple / menubar background to change

details please.

Awesome! Nice work man

I've changed my menubar a bit:



Thanks

Last edited by Ruiz (Apr 29, 2008 11:31 am)

Ruiz thats the exact thing I would do if I wanted to take the time to do this! looks great.

ghall wrote:

It just totally stopped working for me. It's not extracting or recompiling.

Code:

Exception in thread "main" java.io.EOFException
    at java.io.RandomAccessFile.readInt(RandomAccessFile.java:713)
    at artEncoder.main(artEncoder.java:55)

Make sure there is an SArtFile.bin in the folder even arfter you have extracted all images.. it uses this to repack the edited images into a new one called SArtFile.new.bin


I Remade the Tiger Menu Gradient in PS

here are some I found Lets make a detailed list, These are known to take effect with Graphite Enabled.

102 - Menu Texture
61  - Apple Menu Not Pressed
62  - Apple Menu Pressed
100 - Spotlight / Help Menu Texture
90  - Menu Hight Top Level
101 - Menu Hight Item

All we need is to be able to change Text color and Window Textures and with the Disable CoreUI (editing Extras.rsrc) method we nearly have a Complete Theming solution.

Perhaps all other files we need to not have to disable CoreUI are in ArtFile.bin.

Are you working on That. ?

Last edited by macprodan (Apr 29, 2008 12:11 pm)