[Help] Create a theme like Snow White?

#1

So I’m working on my first theme, just some tweakes to the look of tiddlers and buttons, and following this guide from the dev site, but when I use my theme plugin, it doesn’t add on top of vanilla.

How exactly does Snow White use a majority of vanilla, and can I get my theme to do the same?

#2

Nevermind!

I feel a bit foolish for making a post for this now, but I was putting my own tiddler as the dependant and not themes/vanilla :sweat_smile:

#3

New question!

how are new tiddlers added using $tw.utils.repackPlugin? I can’t seem to guess the right format to type in new tiddlers.

#4

I have never made a theme but one key factor is stylesheets have an order and the last triumphs but look at ControlPanel > Info > Advanced > Stylesheets and you can see the order. The most recent and winner is at the bottom. Now on the prerelease you also get highlighting. also use <<tag $:/tags/Stylesheet>> to get the tag pill on which you can actually drag and drop reorder them.

  • You can see themes are at the top.
  • Note also the palate and theme tweaks in use
  • Tiddlywiki.com also have a pile of additional themes you can look at for ideas.
#5

Unfortunately I’m afraid that doesn’t help with my predicament, I do appreciate the insight and effort.

The highlight feature is really neat, now that it and several other improvements are being added in the newest release!

Edit: Yep! actually it has been announced a few minutes ago on here! I’m currently playing with a blank copy as we speak haha

#6

Update to my reply: No longer the prerelease, although not announced tiddlwiki.com is now at 5.2.3

#7

Found a better way of making a theme! I didn’t realize Tinka was a plugin creator, makes things so much easier.