Glaze extending Thread last updated on 2004-02-22 06:12:35

Posted by member 111670 on 2004-02-10 03:56:09

Hi !
I'm very tired by themes.
Every theme has a little suck, or missing service, what I needed, so not usable for me.

I need these things:
- Tasks as icons
- Processes as icons
- Virtual desktops
- Sys info (ram/swp,cpu)
- Winamp handler
- Good window resize handling

The Glaze is handle these functions (in 95%), but I want to extend with these things:
- When I click on bottom taskbar, rigth from the glaze label, the show all of the quick launch menu (only)
(Y:760,X:1000)
- I need buttons, to quick access popups, with these subpopups: internet/office/game/etc.
(Y:760,X:1036)

So: I want to learn, how to I do this.
Can anyone show me, how to I do these things, how to I extends Glaze theme ?
One-two example needed.

Thanx for it.

I use this theme in 1024/768.

Ps:
Please send me links to tutorials, and descriptions, examples, if possible.

Posted by member 2112 on 2004-02-10 07:17:43 link

I'm not totally clear on what you want to do. But if you want to create your own popup with your own entries then first read up on the popup module to learn how to create new popup.

Next you need to modify my theme to use the popup you defined. As always there is more than one way to skin a cat, but a simple way is to open script.rc and scroll down to where !QuickLaunchHotspot is defined and change |PopupQuickLaunch to the name of the popup you defined. Then you just need to make sure that the theme settings is set to use Quick Launch for the bottom right corner.

Posted by member 111670 on 2004-02-11 02:46:22 link

Hello drworm !

Sorry for disturbing, but I'm totally newbie in this theme config.
I read your comment, but I need some example - need a short code.

To begin, I want to change your quick access menu, from D: to a
popupmenu ?

Can you give me a code with to I see, how to be add a popup to
your theme ?

In themevars.rc I see:

;--> Choose what folder to display for Quick Access popup
quickaccess "D:\"


Is this ok, but how I change to my popup ?

;--> Choose what folder to display for Quick Access popup

*Popup "MyQAPopup" !New !MyQAPopup
*Popup "zope" "c:\zope\website\start.bat"
*Popup !Separator
*Popup "context" "$TxtEditor$"
*Popup ~New

quickaccess "$MyQAPopup"

Or if it is wrong, how to do it ?

Thanx for every help !

Posted by member 2112 on 2004-02-22 06:12:35 link

You can't set the variable "quickaccess" to a popup because of the way it is used. Read the second paragraph of my first post for how to make Glaze use the popup you have defined. Let me know if it's still not clear.