ThemeShooter Wii

ThemeShooter
File:Themeshooterwii.jpg
General
Author	SifJar, HoKaze
Type	PC utilities
Version	2.5
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2010/09/29
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ThemeShooter is a small application made to allow HBC theme creators to create screenshots of their themes to put on the HBC theme repository.

Usage

Very simple. Just run ThemeShooter.exe and click "Browse", then select the theme.zip you want to screen shot. Then click "Make screenshot" and select where to save the screenshot.

If the screenshots the app generates don't have text on them, try right-clicking ThemeShooter.exe and choosing "Run as Administrator". This should only be necessary one time, to install the fonts. On subsequent runs, running normally should suffice.

Images

Todo List

• Add choice of background/background_wide and apps_list/apps_grid
• Randomize bubbles scaling/rotation
• Add other screens

Changelog

v2.5

• Added theme previewing
• Rejects incorrectly sized images
• Bubble positioning is now random (don't blame me if they overlap :P)

v2.0

• Text implemented, including colour read from theme.xml
• Some positioning made more accurate
• Improved "the Homebrew Channel" text
• Missing images replaced with ones from "Dark Waters v2" theme by NeoRame, with exception of background.png, which MUST be present

v1.0

• Initial release
• All images implemented, no text

Variants - ThemeShooterTk

ThemeShooterTk 1.1 is a cross-platform, Python based clone of ThemeShooter made by HoKaze.

It can be run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and most modern Unix-like operating systems so long as the following requirements are met:

• Python 2.x (Python 2.6 and 2.7 should work fine)
• Tkinter (should come with python)
• Python Imaging Library, PIL (Tends to be included with python)
• PIL: ImageTk Module (on Linux this tends to be kept separate, look for the "python-imaging-tk" package)

What started off as a quick and dirty clone of the original ThemeShooter has since grown and whilst it may be behind the original and ThemeShooterX, it should hopefully suffice for some basic "themeshots." I do intend on continuing to add to it on the rare occasion I have time. Please check the enclosed readme file for further information, bugs and what to look for in the future.

Features

As of version 0.11:

• Dummy text (with alpha)
• Theme previews
• Screenshot generation
• Replaces missing images (apart from the background) with images from Classic theme, Dark Water v2 theme OR a custom theme of your choice
• Random bubble placement on both preview and screenshots
• Beginnings of an application database of sorts (possibly expanded later)
• Basic configuration file support for program settings (will be expanded later)
• Simple console output option, for debugging and rough speed checks
• Cross-platform! (Windows-specific bugs fixed)
• Less ugly buttons!
• Bugfixes!
• Support for both List View and Grid View (4:3 only for now)
• Resizing and rotating of bubbles (finally!)
• Preferences program for changing some settings via GUI instead of text files
• Even more bugfixes!

Images

Todo List

• Better commenting and explanations
• Try to clean up some of the uglier, hackier code (done, partially, sort of?)
• Rejection of incorrectly-sized images?
• Widescreen support?
• Fix image mask bug with some application images when saving screenshots
• More bubbles!
• Less sorcery and arcane rituals invoked by the program...?

External links

• Wiibrew - https://wiibrew.org/wiki/ThemeShooter