Chroma Theming and Chromumll

Chromumll v1.0 Documentation
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Notice: These are preliminary specifications and are subject to change.

Introduction

Welcome to the Chromumll documentation. These pages are an on-going attempt to provide Chroma users with the information necessary to create new themes or to supplement Chromumll files with different images.

Chroma themes are read out of databases written in a specially designed language called "Chromumll". Chromumll (pronounced chro-mummul or chro-mumble) is an acronym for the Chromum Layout Language. A Chromum is a single unit of Chroma. This was funny once.

To make your own themes, you may either use your own images with a pre-written Chromumll template or create everything from scratch. Both approaches are described in the tutorials, while detailed specs of the Chromumll language are provided in the reference section. A thread runs through the tutorials following the recommended order of reading.

A user-friendly theme-creation tool that will automate much of this process is planned.
Note that the layout of these pages is minimally formatted;
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Note also that a copy of these documents, archived
on October 7th, 1999 can be downloaded from here.

The recommended Tutorial Thread

Starts Here

Please send questions, comments, queries or concerns to bugs@thematic.com, subject=Documentation.

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Introduction
Greydient Tutorial Getting Started Greydient Images Greydient.cll Deciphered
Other Tutorials Chromumll Basics Objects and Properties Classes Tree Traversal (. {} * parent ) Window Frames
The Language Data Types Boolean Command Enumeration Event Float Integer Object String Operators General Conditional Ternary Operator ( ? : ) Equivalence Operators Boolean Operators Style Comments Compound Statements Names
Miscellaneous: Image File Formats; Theme Development Utilities

Classes
(see main Classes page for legend)

     Object
    +--- Color
    +--- Font
    |
    +-- Glyph
    |  |
    |  +-- Bitmap
    |  |  +--- EdgeBitmap
    |  |  +--- GravityBitmap
    |  |  +--- PatternBitmap
    |  |
    |  +--- Group
    |  |   +--- GroupBox
    |  |   +--- VIconLabel
    |  |   +--- HIconLabel
    |  |
    |  +--- Label
    |  |
    |  +-- Shape
    |  |  +--- Ellipse
    |  |  +--- Rectangle
    |  |  +--- RoundRect
    |  |
    |  +-- Widget
    |     +-- Button
    |     |  +--- CheckBox
    |     |  |   +--- ToggleButton
    |     |  |
    |     |  +--- PushButton
    |     |  |   +--- DropDownArrow
    |     |  |
    |     |  +--- RadioButton
    |	  |
    |     +--- Mouseable
    |     |
    |	  +-- ScrollBar
    |	  |  +--- HScrollBar
    |	  |  +--- VScrollBar
    |	  |
    |     +-- SizeGrip
    |	  +-- WindowBorder
    |	     +-- WindowFrame
    |	        +--- DialogWindowFrame
    |           +--- MessageWindowFrame
    |		+--- ToolWindowFrame
    |
    +--- RadManager
    |
    +-- Timer
       +--- Alternator
       +--- Follower
       +--- Ramp

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