The following is a brief tour of ThemePark 2.0. Click the thumbs for a fullsized image.

ThemePark lets you edit your themes using a meaningful hierarchy of themable elements. Gone are the days of "what does pxm# 4238 do?". Max Rudberg, überthemer extraordinaire, designed the hierarchy and added extensive comments and descriptions, so when you create your theme, you've got a Virtual Max™ by your side.

Should you feel the urge, the hierarchy and comments can be customized to fit your needs. It's all standard XML.

More importantly, ThemePark can now be used to edit all aspects of your theme, not just Extras.rsrc. A picture is worth at least seven words, so here ya go...



Notice that you've got all of the stuff you need to create a theme - the Finder, the Login Window, the Boot Panel. You've also got "metadata" about your theme: it's name, description, copyright and version. This is stuff that will be presented to users of your theme by their theme changing program.

You can use colors, crazy fonts, images, or whatever in your theme metadata. Basically, if you can format it using TextEdit, you can format it using ThemePark.



Because it can be annoying to be limited to a single-window interface while creating your theme, ThemePark continues to support opening element editors in their own window. As always, you can use copy/paste or drag/drop to edit your themable elements. Here are a few of the available editors:



One of the problems with creating themes is keeping track of the sheer quantity of things that exist to be edited. ThemePark now helps you by tracking which themable elements you've edited. This information is stored along with your theme-in-progress, so you can always tell what still needs to be done. The following image shows that all of the Login Window elements have been edited (note the different font). The fonts are, of course, customizable, so if you absolutely need ThemePark to show you changed elements using Zapfino, you can do that.



Last but not least, ThemePark now includes live-preview functionality. You can see how your work-in-progress looks in Carbon, Cocoa and Metal windows. Features such as toolbars, drawers and animated progress bars are included.