Drupal Theme Generator Version 4 Released (August 2006)

andybold:

The VBA macros contained in this program both control both the functionality of the program and output calculated cell values to files on your computer. The file paths and names of these files are defined on the Paths sheet. There is no need to edit the VBA macros for functionality of the program. If you need to write additional macros, then simply write them within another workbook and call them via a button placed on any sheet within this workbook.

General access to the VBA macros in this workbook / program is not granted because the VBA code is proprietary to myself and not Open Source. Therefore I do not want any third parties such as Novell to have access to them.

Sam Raheb (Sam308)

Natalie:

You need to press the "Send to >>" button to edit or preview a copy of the retrieved theme.

The popup cell comments should explain this as stateed below:

Theme Values
These values are retrieved from the Database sheet. To edit or preview a copy of the retrieved theme, press the "Send to >>" button to transfer the "Themes Values" to the "Design Values" column.

Design Values
The Design Values column is used as an edit location for designing your themes. The theme named in the first cell of this column represents the active theme.

The active theme utilizes the file assets of the named theme's folder. Therefore, when you generate either the PHPtemplate, Xtemplate, style.css, or menu.js files, these files are written to this folder. The HTML Theme Previews utilize the images from this folder.

Instructions
To design a theme using an existing Database theme as a template, first select a theme from the "Theme Values" column and then transfer it to the "Design Values" column by pressing the "Send to >>" button.

(1) To utilize the images, PHPtemplate, Xtemplate, style.css, and menu.js file assets from a particular theme's folder, select an active theme name from the drop-down list box.

(2) Edit only the cell values identified by red colored fonts.

(3) Preview the theme by pressing the "Preview Theme" button. A new temporary style.css and the optional menu.js file will be created in the Preview directory. The images associated with the Preview will be referenced from active named theme directory.

(4) When you done editing / previewing the new theme, transfer it to the Database sheet by pressing the “Save Theme to Database” button. The "Design Values" will be transferred to the Database under the active named theme.

To edit the colors, either select one from the cell's drop-down list or enter in the 7-character HEX code for the color.

Note: If you select a color from the cell's drop-down list, both the name of the color and the HEX code will be entered into the cell. You do not need to remove the name of the color. Only the last 7 characters of the cell value will be used for the color code.

Spreadsheet Cell Reference Colors
• Red font colored cell are user input cells. Enter your data into these cells.

• Blue colored cells contain formulas. Editing of these cells should be performed by developers who want to modify the design of the theme templates themselves, therefore creating a whole different look than that of the original design.

• Magenta colored cells are linked to and controlled by object items such as the scroll boxes and check boxes. These cells must remain intact as is.

• Black and other font colored cells are description labels.

Hope this helps you,

Sam Raheb (Sam308)

I double checked the code in the template files and did not find anything wrong. The code sections for both template types are shown below in the first two code blocks just for the title section you are referring to. As you can see, the title statements are in the template code, but for some reason the title is not printing out in the final HTML as shown in the third code section below.

This led me to believe that you are using Drupal 4.7.x and not 4.6.x.

The Drupal Theme Generator version 3.2 was designed for Drupal 4.6.x. The Drupal Theme Generator version 4.0 was designed for both Drupal 4.6.x. and 4.7.x.

From analyzing the first line of code (the ID) in the drupal.css files for Drupal 4.6.x and 4.7.x and comparing it to your drupal.css file, it seems you are using version Drupal 4.7.x as shown below. Based on this conclusion, you are using the wrong Drupal Theme Generator version. Therefore, you should use the Drupal Theme Generator version 4.0 and not version 3.2.

drupal 4.6.x drupal.css file:
/* $Id: drupal.css,v 1.101.2.2 2005/05/31 23:24:18 unconed Exp $ */

drupal_4.7.x drupal.css file:
/* $Id: drupal.css,v 1.147.2.2 2006/05/08 17:57:29 killes Exp $ */

Your drupal.css file:
/* $Id: drupal.css,v 1.147.2.3 2006/06/30 00:13:45 unconed Exp $ */

phptemplate theme template code section:

      <div id="main">
        <?php print $breadcrumb ?>
        <h1 class="title"><?php print $title ?></h1>
        <div class="tabs"><?php print $tabs ?></div>
        <div id="help"><?php print $help ?></div>

xtemplate theme template code section:

      <div id="main">
        <!-- BEGIN: title -->
        {breadcrumb}
        <h1 class="title">{title}</h1>
        <!-- BEGIN: tabs -->
        <div class="tabs">{tabs}</div>
        <!-- END: tabs -->
        <!-- END: title -->
        <!-- BEGIN: help -->
        <div id="help">{help}</div>
        <!-- END: help -->

Your published HTML code from your page via "view source":

      <div id="main">
                <h1 class="title"></h1>
        <div class="tabs"></div>
        <div id="help"></div>

Sam Raheb (Sam308)