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Old 05-15-2012, 09:34 AM   #1
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Default Q: How to build my custom button icons into your theme?

I have about 40 custom-made toolbar icons. Is there an easy way to incorporate them into any of the themes that you guys have built? I

If I use your theme all those buttons are not displayed as expected.

If I open the .ReaperThemeZip and drop the .png files into the folder, then I get all my icons, but on the button design of the original theme.

So what I have to do is:
-- open up the new theme
-- find a blank button png file
--for each of my 40 buttons:
---- edit the old button to extract the symbol from the background
---- apply that to the blank button from the new theme
---- save it
-- then copy the buttons into the new theme's image folder
-- close the new theme.

That seems like a lot of hard work to me. There must be a better way to do this.

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What I would like to do is:
-- open the new theme
-- drop my "skeletal" button images (i.e. icons without the button background) into the folder
-- close the new theme.

"Somehow", Reaper would then recognise that the button .png file is a "skeletal" image and combine it with the blank button background image and display them both overlaid.
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Old 05-15-2012, 09:49 AM   #2
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Shouldn't this work if you just put them in your Resources Directory/Data/toolbar_icons folder? I have loads of "skeletal" button images in there that are overlaid on the default blank toolbar image from the current theme.
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Phew - thank you. Yes, that would do it - didn't know about that. I'll give it a try later on.


What should be in that folder? There seems to be a lot of old files in there.
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Shouldn't this work if you just put them in your Resources Directory/Data/toolbar_icons folder? I have loads of "skeletal" button images in there that are overlaid on the default blank toolbar image from the current theme.
That's the way I do it. Also, I start all the file names of my pngs with "zz" to keep them totally separate.
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OK, I tidied up the folder (mainly by deleting the debris ) and put some "skeletal" icons .png files (@WT - what would be the proper descriptive name for .these files?) in there.

I find that I need a few sets to match the different themes (for light /dark background, colour co-ordination etc), but the job is a lot easier. So I have sets of file in different sub-folders and copy the appropriate set into the toolbar_icons folder.

Thank you for the guidance.

Top-tip: as Tod said, give each of your own .png files a unique name so that the intended image is used rather than one built into the theme.
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Good idea Tod, hadn't thought of that
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