Difference between revisions of "ThemeShooter"

	ThemeShooter
General
Author(s)	SifJar
Type	PC utility
Version	2.5
Links
	Download
	Source

Revision as of 00:21, 1 October 2010

ThemeShooter is a small application made to allow HBC theme creators to create screenshots of their themes to put on the HBC theme repository here. ThemeShooter is Windows only, however there is a cross-platform, Python based version called ThemeshooterTK and a native Mac OS X version called ThemeShooterX.

Usage

Very simple. Just run ThemeShooter.exe and click "Browse", then select the theme.zip you want to screen shot. Then click "Make screenshot" and select where to save the screenshot.

If the screenshots the app generates don't have text on them, try right-clicking ThemeShooter.exe and choosing "Run as Administrator". This should only be necessary one time, to install the fonts. On subsequent runs, running normally should suffice.

Images

Screenshot of program

Sample themeshot

Todo List

Add choice of background/background_wide and apps_list/apps_grid
Randomize bubbles scaling/rotation
Add other screens

ThemeshooterTK

ThemeshooterTK is a cross-platform, Python based clone of ThemeShooter made by HoKaze.

As of version 0.03 text alpha has been implemented and tested with a few themes. Version 0.04 allows for both previews and screenshot generation.

It can be downloaded here : Themeshootertk.zip

ThemeShooterX

Description

ThemeShooterX Screenshot

ThemeShooterX (made by Leathl) is a Mac OS X version of ThemeShooter (Universal Binary, 32bit PPC and 32/64bit Intel). I made this when I started to learn coding for Mac and was in lack of ideas for applications. It should run under Leopard and Snow Leopard and might also run under Tiger, but I'm not able to test or ensure that, as I have no machine running Tiger.

There are a few differences to the original application:

Each opened theme gets its own window including a preview
You can choose 4:3 and 16:9 (widescreen)
Preferences (changed preferences only affect new opened windows):
- Draw a pointer (hand) on Themeshots
- Draw the description defined in theme.xml on Themeshots
- Adjustable blur effect on Themeshots to get a TV-like look
- Use application database (see below)

Application Database

ThemeShooterX contains a database including several applications (name, description, icon). You can add/delete applications to/from the database in the preferences window. If turned on, 5 random applications from the database will be drawn on Themeshots instead of "Lorem Ipsum" text.

Download

Application: ThemeShooterX 1.0
Source: ThemeShooterX 1.0 Source

Changelog

v2.5

Added theme previewing
Rejects incorrectly sized images
Bubble positioning is now random (don't blame me if they overlap :P)

v2.0

Text implemented, including colour read from theme.xml
Some positioning made more accurate
Improved "the Homebrew Channel" text
Missing images replaced with ones from "Dark Waters v2" theme by NeoRame, with exception of background.png, which MUST be present

v1.0

Initial release
All images implemented, no text

Credits

Thanks to tic (Tariq Porter) for his GDI+ Library - http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32238
Thanks to Titan for XPath library - http://www.autohotkey.net/~Titan/#xpath
Team Twiizers for HBC
7zip.org for 7za.exe
NeoRame for "Dark Waters v2" theme
bg4545 for improved hbc.png
HoKaze for ThemeshooterTK

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 ThemeshooterTK is a cross-platform, Python based clone of ThemeShooter made by [[User:HoKaze|HoKaze]].
-<strike>Currently it cannot save screenshots, and previews them instead, so you must do a screengrab and crop to save it. Also text alpha is not supported.</strike>
 As of version 0.03 text alpha has been implemented and tested with a few themes. Version 0.04 allows for both previews and screenshot generation.