Creating custom tool bar themes

 

Creating custom tool bar themes

 

To simplify the process of deploying and sharing tool bar themes we've created a new file format .ffxptheme

 

a .ffxptheme file is basically a zip archive file containing the tool bar image sets and optionally a background image.

 

The .ffxptheme contains the following files.

 

toolbar.ini

<main toolbar buttons>

<nav toolbar buttons>

<readme file>

<license file>

 

 

The toolbar.ini file is an ini syntax formatted text file consisting of the following fields.

 

[toolbar]

name=<name of theme>

main=<file name for the main toolbar buttons>

nav=<file name for the main toolbar buttons>

background=<file name for the toolbar background>

readme=<file name for any readme>

license=<file name for any license agreement>

info=<several lines of text to display in the preferences when the theme is selected>

url=<url to display when the theme is selected for additional information>

 

 

Additional information

 

The background, readme, license, info, url fields are all optional.

 

The info line is a one-liner for simplicity we convert any embedded tabs into new lines, this field has room for 4 lines of text (assuming the text doesn't word-wrap).

 

Create a standard .zip archive containing the above mentioned files and then rename the file extension from .zip to .ffxptheme

 

See also:

Creating custom tool bar backgrounds

Creating custom tool bar image sets