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Apr
23
Customizing Themes Even Further
Filed Under Bento Tips, Themes, Tutorials
Long time ago, my fellow Bento gold digger Barbara sent me a screen shot of a funny custom Theme she had created. Initially I didn’t see anything unusual. But after all this time I happened to run across that image again and all of a sudden I noticed that the Theme included a visible Column Divider. Interesting, I thought… No regular Bento Theme has that. The Column Divider usually only becomes visible in edit-mode and it just looks like an outline.
Today I figured out how my friend created a Column Divider image!
Here is the solution:
When you edit a theme to customize it (see my tutorial on theme creation/customizing), the plist file contains this line that I had never even noticed:
<key>columnImageScaled<⁄key>
<⁄true>
… which is very similar to this line:
<key>separatorImageScaled<⁄key>
<⁄true>
… which refers to the image of the horizontal separator you can add on a form. That image is called Separator.tif. That told me everything I needed to know…
So this is what I did to create an image for the otherwise invisible column divider, and it worked like a charm:
I opened the Separator.tif image in Preview and simply rotated it to make it vertical. Then I saved it under the name Column.tif. That was it!
After re-starting Bento the column divider became visible for that theme – like Magic!
Have fun!
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Am I missing anything? You mention the downloadable theme packs but they are nowhere to be found! All your posts tagged “theme” take me in an endless loop, so does your “downloads” page. When I click the “Available Themes” link, all it does is show me the 4 posts labeled “theme”, none of which have a download link. Help please?
JP,
we have the Printing Themes and the Neutrals Themes for download (the latter takes you to the external site of the author).
First click on “themes” in the sidebar on the left of the BentoUsers homepage. That displays the top part of each post. Click on “Read More” to get to the complete post. Near the bottom of each post is the download link for the themepacks.