Qcad Theme Apps

[petevick]

Hi petevick,

may I ask you how to get in Windows the Help (F1) for your Designer app? Menu nor F1 triggers no help ...

For reasons unknown, I'd commented out the line in the Inno Setup script that included the help file

You can copy the attachment to C:\Program Files (x86)\Qcad Theme Apps\Qcad Theme Designer and F1 should then display it.

You've also reminded me Husky that I really need to update the help file

Help file deleted, see - https://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic. ... 535#p39535 - for the latest help file.

[Husky]

You can copy the attachment to C:\Program Files (x86)\Qcad Theme Apps\Qcad Theme Designer and F1 should then display it.

Great! Works like a charm. Thank you!

You've also reminded me Husky that I really need to update the help file

Sorry for that - that wasn't my intention ...

[petevick]

Big thanks to Husky for spotting the help file omission in Windows. As a result of that I've updated the help file to the latest version of QTD.

For Window 64 bit OS users copy the attached file to C:\Program Files (x86)\Qcad Theme Apps\Qcad Theme Designer
For Window 32 bit OS users copy the attached file to C:\Program Files\Qcad Theme Apps\Qcad Theme Designer

For Linux OS users copy the attached file to /home/User Name/Qcad Theme Apps/Qcad Theme Designer

THIS HELP FILE IS FOR QTD VERSION 4.6 ONLY

Help file updated 4/04/2023

[petevick]

Qcad Theme Designer update, version 5.0

Version 5.0 is a major update, it introduces a few additions and many changes, and a few bug fixes, all as listed below.

For anyone that is using Linux 21, there will be visual problems if you use any of the awful dark themes.
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ADDITIONS

• An option for local fly out hint tips has been added to Preferences. The default is off. The setting is saved to the configuration file.
• A Synchronize Icon Colours option has also been added to Preferences. When enabled, the Menu and Browser icon colours synchronize with the Check Box and Radio Icons colour. The setting is saved to the configuration file.
• Right clicking on any tab in Linux or Windows now displays a list of available tab names that when selected will make that tab active.

CHANGES

• There have been many graphical user interface changes, this includes the preview area which has been simplified. The Command History and Command Line have been added to the preview area and are combined with a Label and Scroll Bar widget to emulate the display in Qcad.
• The configuration file is now a structured format rather than random numbers and text. The file name is now qcadthemedesigner4.conf for Linux and qcadthemedesigner4.ini for Windows. The new name is to differentiate from previous versions of QTD.
• The Font Colour Overrides that were on the Fonts 2 tab are now combined with Font Size and Style Overrides. The main group box title is now named Font Override Properties.

  

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• The pop-up font preview that was displayed in the Font Overrides tabs has been changed to display the actual font size.

  

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• In version 4.6, changing the Theme colour did not create an Undo event, it also reset the Undo/Redo buffer and reset the Luminance and Hue values to zero, as well as disabling Font Overrides, now all that happens is a single Undo event is created. The Theme button does not affect any Font Overrides font colours that may have been set.
• The Preferences drop down menu has been removed. There is now a new Preferences menu item under the Edit menu. This opens a new tabbed page were all the preference options are displayed.

  

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• The colour Copy/Paste pop-up menu has been extended to work with the font colour buttons in Font Overrides. It has also been increased from 4 to 5 items, and has been changed graphically.
• The Defaults button on the Fonts tab now includes all font colour overrides. Defaults now creates only one Undo event.
• The Sync to Global button has been removed.
• All of the Swap buttons, including Swap All, on the Push Buttons, Tool Bar, Buttons and Misc tabs now only create one undo event.
• The Folder Browser hint tips now comply to the Fly Out Local Hint Tips setting on the Preference tab.
• Focused and Deselected tabs are now named Active and Inactive.
• The Font colour button in Misc/Deselected/Hovered tabs has been removed as it was conflicting with Font Overrides. By default the tab font colour will be the same as the Common/Font colour.
• The Gradient bottom colour button in Misc/Deselected/Hovered tabs has been removed.
• The Shortcut dialogue now stays on top of the QTD app window.

FIXED BUGS

• Disabled background and Current value text colour buttons inverted. This somehow got switched in version 4.6.
• Tab Bar Deselected and Hovered font colours were not displaying correctly in the preview.
• Memory leaks in Windows fixed.
• If the shortcuts dialogue was moved, the new position was not being written to the configuration file.
• In version 4.6, if the Check/Radio icons colour was changed and then any Swap button was clicked the Undo would not have functioned for the Swap event.
• The scroll bar button up/down arrow colour in Preview was not displaying correctly.

Windows x32 downloaded 146 times
Linux x64 downloaded 147 times
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[petevick]

Qcad Theme Lite update, version v2.5

Version 2.5 introduces changes to synchronise with Qcad Theme Designer v5.0.

CHANGES

• Icons updated.
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• Folder browser icons updated.
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• Additional lines in the stlyesheet deleted when saving if QTD font overrides exist.

Windows x32 downloaded 145 times
Linux x64 downloaded 149 times
Linux x32 downloaded 137 times

[petevick]

Can I modify the icon to my liking?

I'm not sure which icon you mean.
To start with, which OS do you use, Linux or Windows?

[CVH]

FloraLeonard,
Just to shortcut this:
- QCAD tool icons are provided as picture files, usually SVG files.
- QCAD tools retrieve these pictures on initiation and mostly from the same folder where the tool resides.
- QCAD Pro tools have these embedded aka compiled in the Pro plugin, e.g.: qcadproscripts.dll on Windows.
These last don't show up anywhere as files nor do the tool folders.
I don't assume that Pete's QCAD themes creator can supersede these by replacing all those picture files.

But if you want to propose (a few) 'better' icons then filing a feature request is your best option:
https://www.ribbonsoft.com/bugtracker/

Regards,
CVH

[petevick]

Can I modify the icon to my liking?

I'm not sure which icon you mean.
To start with, which OS do you use, Linux or Windows?

I use Windows operating system

Ok, so if you mean the icon at the top left of the QTD app, no you can't, if you mean the icon that shows on the desktop shortcut, then yes you can, in the same way that you can change any desktop shortcut icon.

[petevick]

Due to the outstanding effort by forum member John Hyslop, I am now able to provide Linux DEB package installers and 64bit AppImages for Qcad Theme Designer and Qcad Theme Lite. The advantage of using DEB packages is that they will install in most Linux flavours. AppImages are executable files and will run by double clicking them.
Windows x32 installers are also included.

DEB (Linux) NOTES

• The launcher will be found in the Graphics menu section.
• If you already have QTD/QTL installed, these DEB versions will use the same configuration file as used by the previous versions.

Qcad Theme Designer update, version 5.1
Version 5.1 is a minor update, it introduces one addition, two changes and two bug fixes.

ADDITIONS

• A User folder button has been added to the browser, this will fully collapse the current tree and then open up at your User folder.

  

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CHANGES

• The Stylesheet Information and Shortcuts menu items that were in the Help menu have been moved to the View menu.
• The default stylesheet has been changed from monochrome to coloured.

FIXED BUGS

• Menu item Stylesheet>Open had to be selected twice to work.
• QTD now displays in dark themes correctly.

Qcad_Theme_Designer_v5.1-x86_64.deb downloaded 8 times
Qcad_Theme_Designer_v5.1-i386.deb downloaded 7 times
Qcad_Theme_Designer-x86_64.AppImage.zip downloaded 9 times


Qcad Theme Lite update, version 2.6
Version 2.6 is a minor update with just two additions, one change and one bug fix.

ADDITIONS

• A User folder button has been added to the browser, this will fully collapse the current tree and then open up at your User folder. (screen shot as above)
• If you associate .css stylesheet files with QTL, you can now open the stylesheet in QTL by right clicking on the file and selecting Qcad Theme Lite.

CHANGES

• The default stylesheet has been changed from monochrome to coloured.

FIXED BUGS

• QTD now displays in dark themes correctly.

Windows x32 Setup....
Qcad Theme Lite v2.6 Setup.zip
(2.86 MiB) Downloaded 455 times
Qcad_Theme_Lite_v2.6-x86_64.deb
(1.58 MiB) Downloaded 489 times
Qcad_Theme_Lite-x86_64.AppImage.zip
(3.18 MiB) Downloaded 476 times
Qcad_Theme_Lite_v2.6-i386.deb
(1.5 MiB) Downloaded 496 times
Qcad_Theme_Lite_v2.6-i386.AppImage.zip
(2.98 MiB) Downloaded 462 times

EDIT - x32 (i386) AppImage added.

[petevick]

Qcad Theme Designer update, version 5.2

This update is required to address two fairly major bugs.
Version 5.2 is a moderate update, it introduces a few additions, changes and bug fixes.

ADDITIONS

• Tool Matrix List group box added to the Fonts 2 override tab. This controls the font in the toolbars displayed in the Tool Matrix when in List View.
• Copy Colours button added to the Push and Tool Bar Buttons tabs. This copies the Normal state colours to the remaining states
• 'Disabled background' colour button has been added to Text Edit Fields in the Misc tab.
• A 'Clear Undo/Redo' menu item has been added to the Edit menu.
• When Font Overrides are active a message will appear in the status bar as a reminder.

CHANGES

• The Copy/Paste button colours popup menu has been redesigned.
• improvements made to the fly out and status bar hint tips.
• Improvements made to the position and look of the Font Override Font Previews popup.
• Numerous graphical improvements.
• The text edit field in the Tab Bars preview area now displays as disabled.

FIXED BUGS

• It seems the 'Swap' buttons in the Push and Tool Bar Buttons tabs have never worked since v5.0 !!, now they do.
• On opening QTD, if the last opened stylesheet cannot be found an unrecoverable error occurred, now the default stylesheet is opened in it's place.

Qcad Theme Designer v5.2 Windows Setup.zip
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Qcad_Theme_Designer_v5.2-x86_64.deb
(2.32 MiB) Downloaded 7 times
Qcad_Theme_Designer_v5.2-x86_64.AppImage.zip
(3.95 MiB) Downloaded 4 times
Qcad_Theme_Designer_v5.2-i386.deb
(2.23 MiB) Downloaded 6 times
Qcad_Theme_Designer_v5.2-i386.AppImage.zip
(3.74 MiB) Downloaded 7 times
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EDIT - x32 (i386) AppImage added.

[petevick]

Linux x32 (i386) AppImages added to Qcad Theme Designer v5.2 andQcad Theme Lite v2.6

[John Hyslop]

Good stuff

[petevick]

Qcad Theme Designer update, version 5.2.1

This is a bug fix update.

FIXED BUGS

• The magnetic Shortcuts dialogue could loose it's position under certain circumstances.
• Copy items 6 to 10 were not working.
• With Font Overrides enabled, Command Line Bold and Italic would create an error.

Windows x32....
Qcad Theme Designer v5.2.1 Windows Setup.zip
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Linux x64...
Qcad_Theme_Designer_v5.2.1-x86_64.deb
(2.4 MiB) Downloaded 297 times
Qcad_Theme_Designer_v5.2.1-x86_64.AppImage.zip
(4.07 MiB) Downloaded 314 times
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Linux x32...
Qcad_Theme_Designer_v5.2.1-i386.deb
(2.29 MiB) Downloaded 313 times
Qcad_Theme_Designer_v5.2.1-i386.AppImage.zip
(3.84 MiB) Downloaded 286 times

[petevick]

Well it's that time of year, so here is a Christmas theme (Elves not included !!), created with Qcad Theme Designer. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all......

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Christmas Theme.zip

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[petevick]

A new theme for the new year, Royal Blue.....

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Royal Blue.zip

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