Litestep Question for JAfo
Saturday, December 14, 2002 by SuperheroCanadian | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Hey jafo ur the litestep wizard around here, im looking for a mod that will automaticly change the colors of text on something without having to go into the step.rc, gonna upload theme but wanna get this working before i do, just wondering if there is anyway i can do this. THX man!
Jafo
Reply #2 Saturday, December 14, 2002 5:19 PM
Reply #2 Saturday, December 14, 2002 5:19 PM
syscolor.dll can change system colours for you...or in something like a popup you could use a bit of scripting to rewrite the step.rc entry for font colours.
All depends on whether its for the system or for LiteSTEP itself...
All depends on whether its for the system or for LiteSTEP itself...
SuperheroCanadian
Reply #3 Saturday, December 14, 2002 6:06 PM
Reply #3 Saturday, December 14, 2002 6:06 PM
its for litestep itself changing font colors couldnt think of how to describe it
SuperheroCanadian feels bad about horrible english knowledge
SuperheroCanadian feels bad about horrible english knowledge
moshi
Reply #4 Saturday, December 14, 2002 7:38 PM
Reply #4 Saturday, December 14, 2002 7:38 PM
so you wabt to have different color sets in one theme?
this works like this:
create RC files where you put the color specific settings (and dont put them into step.rc) like colorset1.rc, colorset2.rc, colorset3.rc, ...
create one file called color.rc. in color.rc put this line:
include "$path$colorset1.rc"
in step.rc put this line:
include "$path$color.rc"
then you can use textedit2.dll to overwrite color.rc. you can create a !bang that overwrites color.rc and then recycles.
i have done it this way with my BlackBox theme. it is not OTS compliant but you can study the code. http://www.skinbase.org/rate.php?id=1059
also Ceeslans uses a similar routine in his multi-color themes. he recently released one at lsthemes.com
this works like this:
create RC files where you put the color specific settings (and dont put them into step.rc) like colorset1.rc, colorset2.rc, colorset3.rc, ...
create one file called color.rc. in color.rc put this line:
include "$path$colorset1.rc"
in step.rc put this line:
include "$path$color.rc"
then you can use textedit2.dll to overwrite color.rc. you can create a !bang that overwrites color.rc and then recycles.
i have done it this way with my BlackBox theme. it is not OTS compliant but you can study the code. http://www.skinbase.org/rate.php?id=1059
also Ceeslans uses a similar routine in his multi-color themes. he recently released one at lsthemes.com
SuperheroCanadian
Reply #5 Saturday, December 14, 2002 7:48 PM
Reply #5 Saturday, December 14, 2002 7:48 PM
thx alot man that really really helps. 
Jafo
Reply #6 Saturday, December 14, 2002 10:27 PM
Reply #6 Saturday, December 14, 2002 10:27 PM
I think some of my pre-OTS ones here do it the same way....
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Reply #1 Saturday, December 14, 2002 3:29 PM