This is my first leopard theme I made and really only mods the menu bar as I know many people wanted a dark menu bar so here it is





[Note::If you have transparent menu bar disable it to see the new one]

Download below

Read the readme to install

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Nice!

Would it be possible for you to make a normal Aqua version (blue highlights instead of red)?

Looks cool, well done.

Yeah, or a Graphite version

Awesome work...

anyone a Matrix Fan ?
will just need to Paint the Red Green.. a few more tweax n it'll Look AMAZINGLY Matrix!

I don't Mind readyn a tutorial to do it myself

Agreed, wow this is excellent, I have to say its one of the best mods I've seen. But like Sabr, I would like a normal Aqua version with blue highlights, but keep the menu bar dark as it is. This would go so awesome with the HUD mods Oh yeah and can you make the Apple icon in the menu the chrome apple? That would be sweet.

Green highlights would be sweetsauce.

Ok - I made an Aqua/blue one:



Thanks to Pspfreak101 for his dark gradient png which I borrowed from his Red SArtFile.

Edit: You'll need to use Pspfreak101's Extras2.rsrc for the white text in the menubar. Forget to include it in the zip!

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Edit 2: Made a way cooler one, with modified bg gradient too:



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Wow this is awesome... i'll attempt some mods too. Hopefully I will be successful and can share

Whoa nice work! Can you make one with a chrome apple logo? Please?

Thanks

Nice I'm glade to see that I have inspired some to make their own. I can make a tutorial if you guys need one it is rather easy to do.

Yeah - I figured it out from here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=103567

The one thing that is annoying me is that we're going to have to invert the menubar icons (such as the volume or Time Machine icon)...



Chrome? Can you give me an image of the Chrome Apple?

Edit: Do you mean this?

This heres some info on which is which

SArtFile.bin
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- 61.png → Apple Menu Unselected
- 62.png → Apple Menu Selected
- 89.png → Menu Bar Selected Aqua
- 90.png → Menu Bar Selected Graphite
- 100.png → Regular Menu Selected Aqua
- 101.png → Regular Menu Selected Graphite
- 102.png → Menu Bar Gradient
- 103.png → Spotlight Gradient Aqua
- 104.png → Spotlight Gradient Graphite

Extras2.rsrc
-----------------------
Index 31 is menu text color
Index 33 is menu selection text or 34

I'm still trying to find the time color its really bugging me

Yeah, I noticed that too. Are you using ThemePark for the Extras file?

i just applied the "apple_blue"
then i came back and i read what you said about inverting menu icons.. i google that but i don't come up with anything? can you tell me how to do that?

Yeah you using something different?

I'm not currently 100% sure where these icons are stored. There are volume pdf files which look like they may be for the menubar icons, but I have yet to fiddle with them. Look up in my other post, I included a link to a topic which tells you how to decode/encode the SArtFile.bin.



Nope - but I can't figure out where you found those indexes...

clr# -> 384 -> then count the squares

cool thanks.. i found them in:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras
then show package contents

Yeah, that Thanks!

Ah ok, thanks. How did you figure out what that index referred to? Trial and error?


Excellent - if you make a set of inverted icons, make sure the upload them here.


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Pspfreak101 - take a look here (if you haven't already):

http://macthemes2.net/wiki/Extras.rsrc

It's possible that the date/time could be index 46... I haven't tried it myself, but it may be worth a shot.

negative on 46 I imagine its on line 30 since most of those effect the menu bar

So far I did these menu bar icons shown in the screenie:

Spaces
Volume
ScriptMenu
HomeSync
Eject
Fax
Keychain
Displays
User
Time Machine (not completely as you can see. I guess there are some files elsewhere, I looked in the time machine app as well but didn't see anymore to edit. so maybe somebody can help with that.)

I'm not sure about the time, date, and spotlight :/ I assume the settings for these are stored somewhere else?

To change them you'll have to go to /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras and then show package contents for each menu item... Navigate to the resources folder and replace the pdf there.

Nice job just need that stupid time index

Request for graphite version +1

Meh - I've already gone back to normal Leopard... I would make tons of versions if the Time/Date thing could be fixed, but then again, it also involves having to edit the menubar icons in order to get it looking half-decent. Just too much tinkering for me...

I'm willing to put in the effort.

But I hear that when altering the SArtFile.bin it actually increases the file size by double.
This really turns me off the whole process. But if it would look entirely clean, with time/date as you say, I'd be a total convert.

Where did you hear/read that? If you look at one of my previous posts, you'll find a link to the decoder and encoder for the SArtFile.bin. Doesn't double the file size at all...

I got my Black Menubar from the original LeoLoco Menubar mod. I use iStat clocks for the time. Also I included a picture of the select gradient.

thanks for the cool look. I followed the readme and all worked great

OK I messed around a little and I came up with one I really like.

Edit: Gray Menubar Theme V2
Changed the previews, so as not to mislead anyone, after Sabr told me my font was ugly lolz
I also included the original SArtFile.bin & Extras2.rsrc but you all should be backing up your stuff.

Previews:


Downloads:

@ chekkz - eww!! The font looks horrible!

Haha i guess i should have probably put that is just my font choice I'm using with Silk beta... that wont affect anyone's installation. You'll all still get Lucida Grande.
I edited the post above

@chekkz

I'm really digging the slight grey variation. But there is something that is really annoying, the apple is different sizes for click and non-click states:



Can you fix that and make a grey one to match the grey of the Finder window. That would be choice! Thx!!

No matrix Fans around ?

Sad

Black and green just don't look good when used in conjunction in the menu bar...

Hey Sabr,

I tried the Apple Chrome on the menbar with Pspfreak's Extras2.rsrc. I ended up with the normal menubar, except with white text That means somehow the SArtFile.bin isn't working properly. I made sure to delete the old one before installing the new one, and I cleared all the system caches but it didn't work. Thanks for the work!

Then it's a problem on your end - since it works fine here (no need to restart btw, just relaunch Finder):



The above image is without the modded Extras2.rsrc (hence the black text)...

I see what u mean but it seems to be the same no matter which one I use, the mods or the original...was nothing I did to change the size, all I did was edit the color of the original.
About a gray one to match the finder? You mean to match the finder when the window is selected?

It's probably the stroke (outter-line of pixels) on the Apple on the slected image. Just make the unselected and selected the same png, then you'll have no problem at all...

Did you turn of transparencey

OK, thanks, I'll try it again and tell you how it goes...

What color should the highlights be

woooooooow.
that's hot!

Looking good. I see you've edited the transparent png's this time. Personally, I'd keep the highlight as the default blue or change it to a dark grey.

It's a shame about the date/time text colour issue though...

I'm on search for the drop down background so that can be transparent black would look amazing

Sounds cool. Having a look here: http://macthemes2.net/wiki/SArtFile.bin it says the menu background was 14, but it also says it's now redundant. It could be handled in a separate .rsrc file somewhere. I can't help you with that though... Good luck!

My attempt at wood... any suggestions on a color for the "select"
also should i leave the apple brown or set it to black?
and what do you think of the wood?

The blue doesn't go with the wood effect...

Looks cool though.

Thanks...yes i know it doesn't go with it lolz thats why i asked for suggestions on the color.
do you have any suggestion?