Creating Themes
Customizing Events and Themes
After creating an event using the event creator it can be modified by editing the screens using an image editor such as Photoshop or editing the settings using the event editor (double click on the event or select the event and then click on "Edit event...".
Creating new theme designs is beyond the scope of this help file, but there are some simple changes that can be made e.g. changing the screen background image, the keyboard designs or the appearance of the icons.
Changing the screen background
The screens can have a colored background or a background JPEG image. The Chameleon theme uses a background JPEG image to create a magenta/orange graduated background. The Chameleon theme folder can be found in your Documents folder in the subfolder Breeze Booth for iPad\Themes. The JPEG image used for this theme is named background.jpg. Edit or replace the background.jpg image to use a different background when creating events.
The naming of the background image defines how it is applied:
| Screen Name | Description |
background_stretched.jpg |
stretches the background image to fill the screen |
background_tiled.jpg |
tiles the background to fill the screen |
background_cropped.jpg |
uses the background without resizing and crops it to fit if it is larger than the screen |
background.jpg |
is the same as background_stretched.jpg |
Example: to create a background with a weave pattern find a suitable image for tiling and copy it to the Chameleon theme's folder and name it background_tiled.jpg:
Changing the keyboard background
Keyboards are defined using png images to define their appearance when upper or lower case is slected or the keys are pressed (see Keyboards and Surveys for more info). If the keyboard images have transparent backgrounds (as is the case with the Cameleon theme) you can provide a background image for the keyboards. Keyboards appear on top of other screens and can have transparent, semi-transparent or opaque backgrounds to control whether the screen beneath is visible. For this reason the the background images are PNG files which can contain an alpha channel to control transparency.
The Chameleon theme folder can be found in your Documents folder in the subfolder Breeze Booth for iPad\Themes. The PNG image used for this theme is named keyboard_background.png. Edit or replace the keyboard_background.png image to use a different background for keyboards when creating events.
| Screen Name | Description |
keyboard_background_stretched.png |
stretches the background image to fill the screen |
keyboard_background_tiled.png |
tiles the background to fill the screen |
keyboard_background_cropped.png |
uses the background without resizing and crops it to fit if it is larger than the screen |
keyboard_background.png |
is the same as keyboard_background_stretched.png |
Changing the icons
The icons used for the buttons in each screen are defined by PNG images that have filenames that define their purpose and their size and position e.g. photo_start_{lx50%bx16%W20%}.png is used for the start button in photo booth mode. The last part of the filename enclosed in curly brackets is used to define its size and position. e.g. W20% means it should be resized to 20% the width of the screen. Edit the PNG file in an image editor such as Photoshop to change its appearance.