With my Default V6 Modders' Supplies you've been able to choose from a selection of different elements to make your own mod theme based on the Default 6. Next step onward from that has been to radically increase the range of options and make it straightforward for ordinary users to choose and apply them. So, here is the initial offering of:
Theme Assembler
It is a script I have written that shows how the various options look, and automates the copying of the files into its own theme called 'Assembled_Theme' and updates it, in real time. It can also do some more complex stuff than that, like rewrite values in the rtconfig file (it will do more of that in future) but the key thing is that you don't need to understand what any of that means ...just point and click:
The script itself is very much a work in progress, but the theme it outputs is a fully functional Reaper theme based on the Default 6 theme, with complete 100%, 150% and 200% HiDPI support throughout and the usual theme adjuster.
- Choose Options > Show REAPER resource path in explorer/finder. Extract content of the zip (the 'theme_assembler.lua' file AND the 'theme_assembler' folder) into the 'scripts' folder there.
- Choose Actions > Show action list. In the bottom right choose New action > Load ReaScript. Choose theme_assembler.lua and click Open.
- In the actions list you'll now see Script: theme_assembler.lua. Choose it and click Run.
- First time you run the script, it will ask "Assembled theme not found. Create theme?" Click OK
- Click an element to see what choices there are, click a choice and the script will copy the files over and refresh the theme.
And that's it. Everything it does is just a change to the completely normal 'assembled_theme' that you will find in your color themes folder if you want to have a look, and you can rename that theme and mess with it further if you know how themes work.
If you come up with a combination you like, please do share a screenshot, it'll be fun to see what's working and what direction I should take more elements in!
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Instructions are shown here if you don't like reading:
...thanks Reaperblog!
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Current state (theme_assembler_0110)
The script should not misbehave at all, but in use it may appear pretty janky in places at this point, and its appearance is entirely placeholder to get the functionality working. I'm still new to this coding thing.
I've only done some of the elements. I'm never going to do all the elements.
Something weird going on with some of the shadows.
Limited range of choices, particularly for some elements, at this point. I'll just keep adding stuff as and when I feel the urge.
Some of the light background record arm buttons look bad.
AbFab!! Smashing!! The Moon landing of modern theming!!
Update: Error.
Under Win8x64: It does not create the assembled
theme resources folder at all.
Tried a few things like running Reaper admin rights
etc. but no go. I was going to create the folder myself but I do not know what structure is or what it is supposed to put there. Did everything
correctly triple checked. I will see about Win1022h2 I was just trying it out on my net pc first.
I thought maybe it had something to do with the mix of forward slashes and backslashes in the target path under an older ver of windows because it reads..(in the error msg):
'c:\users\xxx\appdata\roaming/reaper/colorthemes/assembled_resources....' not found, path does not exist.
but I went into terminal, and typed 'cd' and then the path all the way to color themes from root with an odd mix of forward and backslashes, which I have never done even since DOS 3.0 and lo and behold it found the dir no problem so not that, I learned something new.
With my Default V6 Modders' Supplies you've been able to choose from a selection of different elements to make your own mod theme based on the Default 6. Next step onward from that has been to radically increase the range of options and make it straightforward for ordinary users to choose and apply them. So, here is the initial offering of:
Theme Assembler
It is a script I have written that shows how the various options look, and automates the copying of the files into its own theme called 'Assembled_Theme' and updates it, in real time. It can also do some more complex stuff than that, like rewrite values in the rtconfig file (it will do more of that in future) but the key thing is that you don't need to understand what any of that means ...just point and click:
The script itself is very much a work in progress, but the theme it outputs is a fully functional Reaper theme based on the Default 6 theme, with complete 100%, 150% and 200% HiDPI support throughout and the usual theme adjuster.
- Choose Options > Show REAPER resource path in explorer/finder. Extract the zip into the 'scripts' folder there.
- Choose Actions > Show action list. In the bottom right choose New action > Load ReaScript. Choose theme_assembler.lua and click Open.
- In the actions list you'll now see Script: theme_assembler.lua. Choose it and click Run.
- First time you run the script, it will ask "Assembled theme not found. Create theme?" Click OK
- Click an element to see what choices there are, click a choice and the script will copy the files over and refresh the theme.
And that's it. Everything it does is just a change to the completely normal 'assembled_theme' that you will find in your color themes folder if you want to have a look, and you can rename that theme and mess with it further if you know how themes work.
If you come up with a combination you like, please do share a screenshot, it'll be fun to see what's working and what direction I should take more elements in!
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Current state (theme_assembler_0529)
The script should not misbehave at all, but in use it may appear pretty janky in places at this point, and its appearance is entirely placeholder to get the functionality working. I'm still new to this coding thing.
I've only done some of the elements. I'm never going to do all the elements.
Something weird going on with some of the shadows.
Limited range of choices, particularly for some elements, at this point. I'll just keep adding stuff as and when I feel the urge.
YES! (-:
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Win 10 I9 20 core 48g Ram always on the latest update
WIN 8 x64 Theme path not found error UPDATE:
I tried ver b (even though I know the update was for linux) and still same problem, except this time, even after deleting the first version from the scripts folder and the action list before running ver b, the assembler did not prompt me to create a new theme, even though it was a first run and the theme did not exist. Still, path not found. Obvs. I did however go into the script and see that the assembler just copies the base .reapertheme and resource folder from the 'initial' folder to the color themes folder and then updates changes realtime, so I copied these myself and viola.
So:
If anyone has a problem under Win 8 or a problem with path does not exist:
Copy 'theme_assembler/initial/*.*' to your ColorThemes folder and all should work. This info is for helping not guarantees or complaints. Hope it helps.
Thanks for this amazing (exhaustingly extensive; 1695 lines of code, 3820 items) piece of work.
even after deleting the first version from the scripts folder and the action list before running ver b, the assembler did not prompt me to create a new theme, even though it was a first run and the theme did not exist.
Could you try this please? - Delete the script, delete the theme, change to the default theme, install the new script and then run it.
NEW VERSION 0530 In post #1 : Has an ERASE THEME button. Pressing this will prompt you 'Erase the theme file, then close the Theme Assembler?', if you click OK it will delete the theme file, switch Reaper to the default theme, and close the script. This means that the next time you run the Theme Assembler script (or a new version of it!) you will be prompted to create the theme from scratch, just like the first time.
I'd love to see this expanded to change flow order if at all possible.
Its entirely possible, since I made the theme so that you can manually reorder the flow sections of the WALTER to reorder the elements themselves, the script could indeed automate that, which I agree would be be great. No promises though, that would be a large job beyond my current competence, and this is me already in the middle of several situations just like that
EDIT:
v530 not working for me on Windows.
Get this error whe running the Lua Script: image C:\reaper658_x64_testing/ColorThemes/Assembled_Theme_Resources/tcp_idxbg.png not found
I had to manually copy the Assembled_Theme and folder to the ColorThemes folder to get it to work.
Yes, hopefully the ERASE THEME button in 530 will solve that problem from now on. In the meantime, today's unexpected lesson is that you have to manually change to a new theme, deleting the old one is not enough for Reaper to report that the theme has changed.
When I open the script, it asks to change to the "Assembled theme"
Any chance to modify an existing theme? (I already have my theme with some changes, but would be nice to experiment with this script )
NEW VERSION 530b in post #1 : Fixes to OSX dark mode.
INSTRUCTIONS - Use the 'ERASE THEME' button (Theme Assembler script, top right). Then delete theme_assembler.lua and the theme_assembler folder from your scripts folder, and unzip the new ones there. Then carry on as normal.
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Folks, I'm more than happy to answer questions here in the thread, and if you've got a problem then please do shout out here, not in my PMs which I generally don't ever look at.
Using the script? No, that would be a really bad idea. However, its mostly just copying image files from one place to another, so you can easily do that manually to whatever destination theme you want. Please note, however, that this is not quite the default 6 theme because some images have been resized to have divisible-by-two dimensions to make the 150% translation easier. So things might look a bit wrong in places if you muddy the waters, so to speak.
Thanks loads sir, and I'm really glad you're enjoying it I hope the assorted crap bits of my WIP scripting are ready for broader consumption!
FYI If you say say theme adjuster theme assembler theme tweaker over and over really quickly, I will appear in your studio and fatally weaken one guitar string.
WT Theme Assembler Script
...just point and click:
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