Colour customisation in MixEmergency 1.2

Nick

Anyone who is familiar with XML can customise the colours of MixEmergency 1.2 if they would like. There is a file in the MixEmergency application package called "colors.xml" that can be modified. If you know about XML then it should be fairly obvious what to do with it - otherwise I wouldn't recommend playing around with the file. If anyone does this (and finds an alternative colour scheme that they like to use), then please post a screenshot of the colour scheme in this thread.

Nick

I'll just a note to this, instead of modifing the file inside the MixEmergency application, copy the file to ~/Movies/MixEmergency/colors.xml and edit this file instead (that way it will work no matter which version you run).

Nick

Just to be clear: 1) Go to the MixEmergency application. 2) Right click MixEmergency and select "Show Package Contents". 3) Navigate into the folder named "Contents", and then into "Resources". 4) Copy and past (don't move) the colors.xml into ~/Movies/MixEmergency/colors.xml 5) Edit the new file at ~/Movies/MixEmergency/colors.xml

djpoproxxx

are you talking about adjusting the actual colors of the program gui?

Nick

Yeah

Nick

I've had a few people ask me about this lately, so I thought I'd bump this thread back up.

djpoproxxx

nice. i'll have a look-see at this very soon. lol!

djClint

too bad got no knowledge about .xml

mikeyshine

Where is "~/Movies/MixEmergency/" located?

Nick

Go into the Mac OS Finder. Then go to your "Movies" folder. Within that will be a folder named "MixEmergency".

djnyce

here is my east orange edition http://www.flickr.com/photos/franknitty69/6886199836/ it's too bright for me, but not bad for the first try. i need to try to find a good color combination. finally figured out the controls one by one. the hard part is converting rgb 0-255 to rgb 0-1.

Nick

Cool - looks a little hard to read though. This might help: http://www.colorpicker.com/ but again, you'll have to divide each RGB value by 255.

djnyce

i'm an idiot. i was dividing 1 by 255 and multiplying by the rgb value.

skinnyguy

that's gonna be burned into my retinas for a bit...

DjBoozie

Somebody make a video please

skinnyguy

so is this going to be a feature in 2.1? making it more user friendly, of course..

Nick

Not likely.... right now I don't think changing the UI colours is more important than other features that I have planned. This color.xml file has been there for around 3 years so far. If it really is *that* popular though, then I may think about it.... though, at the same time, I don't want people giving it ugly/unusable colours and giving MixEmergency a bad name, haha.

tomatoslice

made a basic red background theme http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/tomatoslice/Screenshot2012-03-31at54931PM.png

tomatoslice

hopefully, it is not too ugly/unusable. the features give MixEmergency such a good name, no color combination could could give it a bad one.

tomatoslice

i will say this though, the colors do not compliment each other...blah. will have to fix that.