Old 07-01-2020, 10:23 AM   #1
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This one resulted from a request on being able to programmatically set the default's theme-parameters, without having to use the theme-adjuster.

I made some functions for my Ultraschall-API to influence them.

AND

I made a theme-parameter-monitor, which not only displays the current values, but also, what has been changed by the theme-adjuster.
And of course you can change them in the monitor directly as well. That's part of properly fullfilled decadence XD




This works for all themes, who use theme-parameters, so it could be a cool debugging tool as well for theme-developers.

Just install Ultraschall-API, run the action "Script: ultraschall_Add_Developertools_To_Reaper.lua" and then you have

"Script: ultraschall_developertool_Theme_Parameter_Monitor. lua"

available.

The functions ApplyAllThemeLayoutParameters, GetAllThemeLayoutNames, GetAllThemeLayoutParameters, GetThemeParameterIndexByDescription, GetThemeParameterIndexByName, SetThemeParameterIndexByDescription, SetThemeParameterIndexByName should give you plenty to apply parameters programmatically.

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nice~!

2 questions to a master like you:

Can you make it possible to copy all the "theme color/font settings" (in the theme development/tweaker window) from one theme to another?

can you make WALTER works like "drag and drop"? like entering an graphic edit mode, where you can drag knobs/meters and whatever and then save it so it will work on all tracks and so on...
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Yes, I'm thinking about a proper Walter-Theme-editor.

And No, I'm not doing it...at least for now(and if I'd attempt it, i'd probably not do it for free...).

If that was your question


This tool only takes care of the alterable parameters in the theme. So unless you have a theme, that has the same parameters included, you cannot use settings from one in the other.
I'm using, what the theme offers. But maybe, this tool encourages more themers to include theme-parameters into their themes.
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Old 07-01-2020, 11:30 AM   #4
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nice~!

2 questions to a master like you:

Can you make it possible to copy all the "theme color/font settings" (in the theme development/tweaker window) from one theme to another?

can you make WALTER works like "drag and drop"? like entering an graphic edit mode, where you can drag knobs/meters and whatever and then save it so it will work on all tracks and so on...
That's what I thought was going to happen when Mespotine originally posted this (https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=229063)

The issue (afaikt) is that all themes are built using different 'baseline' sizes. But if the boundaries where know it seems pretty straight foward to programme a button placement tool, Walter after all could be understood (in part) as a big collection of grid references.
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Yes, I'm thinking about a proper Walter-Theme-editor.

And No, I'm not doing it...at least for now(and if I'd attempt it, i'd probably not do it for free...).

If that was your question


This tool only takes care of the alterable parameters in the theme. So unless you have a theme, that has the same parameters included, you cannot use settings from one in the other.
I'm using, what the theme offers. But maybe, this tool encourages more themers to include theme-parameters into their themes.
If you did a walter theme editor for free you would nurture tons of amazing new themes. I could help test and document!
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The editor itself would always be free, but not my development time, as this is a very challenging project. It hasn't been done yet by somebody for a good reason.

And it would be an editor which could open and (re)edit only themes created with it, as supporting others is too impossible due lack of a full Walter-reference doc.
The one on the Reaper-site is missing a lot of elements so I wouldn't know, they exist in the first place.
Let alone what they do.
So building a fully compatible Walter-analyse-parser is impossible or at least means painful reverse engineering over months.
And afaik, the old theme-engine's elements (the one before Walter) seems to be supported in parallel as well.
It would be a mess to support old themes as well...
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