GRADIENT: An Allegro Source code addon for Gradient Themes.

   Typical visual elements in many operating systems comprise:

   Frames           windows for running processes
   Menu selectors   for menu selection 
   Tool Bars        for quick-launch actions and icons

   These elements are often adorned with eye-candy - coloured buttons with
   a 3D raised look. Some window managers offer subtle gradients and soft
   shaded window elements which can be tailored to a particular theme.
   Examples (in Linux) are Blackbox, Enlightenment, Gtk and KDE.

   Still other programs can be "skinned": the programs "look and feel"
   altered with radically different colour schemes and layouts.

   Wouldn't it be nice to do this with allegro?

   Well, (modest cough) may I present...

   GRADIENT:   An allegro theme / gradient generator!

   This is the first stage of a theme / skin system for allegro.

   The skinning part will be added later.

   Please! Please! Don't all clap at once!

   Well, now that the intro is done, lets see what GRADIENT can do.

   FEATURES  (drum roll please...)

   - Nifty graduated colour blends on buttons and menus etc.
   - Draw a complete window with one function call.
   - Draw a dropdown menus with one function call.
   - Draw a quick launch toolbar, tooltip or clock.
   - Nice themes, just like Linux window managers.
   - Change the colour scheme with a few lines of code.
   - Give your users the freedom to choose!

   - theme/gradient spec files are ASCII; editable in any text editor.

gradient.zip - (36k) source code for you to use.
Gradient.zip contains the primary source code - gradient.c and gradient.h
Add these two files to your project to give a new look to your programs.
It also contains some documentation... gradient.doc. This will be updated soon...
Plus some sample themes. (xxx.csg)
0.2.0  13 Sept 2001 Original release on this page
0.2.1   21 Sept 2001 Bugfix
0.2.2   25 Sept 2001  Menu checkbox and cosmetic changes.

Theme edit 2.1: An Allegro Theme Editor.

DOWNLOAD Theme edit 2.1
themedit.zip - (624k) Theme Editor 2.1 Build 120 MSDOS binary & data Now Includes Source Code.

Please unzip with -d to preserve the directory layout.
A complete package which uses gradient functions to enable you to create and edit gradient files.
- gradient source code included
- Theme Edit (DJGPP) executable version 2.1 Build 120 (October 10 2001) (compiled with allegro 3.9.32)
- Sample gradient files (xxx.csg)
- Online Documentation
- Source code included...
- Suitable for high colour modes only (16bit default). You don't want 8bit mode.(trust me!)..

2.1  Build 114  September 13, 2001  Original release.
2.1  Build 116  September 25, 2001  Wallpaper added, menu checkbox, updated directory layout.
2.1  Build 118  September 30, 2001  Improved transparency support.
2.1  Build 120  October 10, 2001   First scource code release, video bug squashed.

Run themedit.exe at different resolutions by specifying screen width and bit depth on the command line.
i.e.  themedit  24  800
This will run a 800x600 screen with a 24bit colour depth if the video card can handle it.

Themedit will run in a 640x480 screen and 16 bit colour mode by default.
 

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