My second theme for Bowtie: bowtieBar 1.6.3 Tested with Bowtie 1.3.1 and 1.4beta, 1.5. _____________________________________ Update 1.6.3 (2012.07.17.): I promise this is the last update today - Shadow added when scrolling and scrolling mechanism fine tuned. - Tweaked update notifcation a little bit. _____________________________________ Update 1.6.2 (2012.07.17.): Sorry for so much update on one day, but I just found these as I started to use the theme. - Not all cover image filled the albumart area perfectly, this is fixed. - Fixed another typo. - Fine tuned some color and shadow. _____________________________________ Update 1.6.1 (2012.07.17.): - Albumart and Quick Pin icon position fix. - Fixed a typo. _____________________________________ Update 1.6 (2012.07.17.): - COMPLETELY REDESIGNED to match Mountain Lion Notification Center Design. - The bar is now narrower. - The controls now have background in Transparent Mode. - Spring Setting is disabled by default. - Hopefully fixed the scrolling finally in Settings. - Code fix-ups. _____________________________________ Update 1.5 (2012.07.15.): - Redesigned to match Mountain Lion Notification Center Design. (New background, new switches, future UI changes in plan) - Fixed a bug in Settings. _____________________________________ Update 1.4.3 (2012.07.03.): - Modified the settings panel scroll function mechanism (visible only on smaller resolutions) - Glow Effect turned off by default. - Hide the bar after 6 seconds by default. - Modified the update info style. - Added small description for Glow effect and Transparent mode switches. _____________________________________ Update 1.4.2 (2012.07.02.): - Fixed border opacity. (note: the preview image on this site not updated yet) - Updated in-theme preview image. _____________________________________ Update 1.4.1 (2012.06.30.): - Border made thinner to match new OSX versions Launchpad. (note: the preview image on this site not updated yet) _____________________________________ Update 1.4 (2011.11.16.): - (NEW) Optional Transparent Bar Mode. - Track Title, Artist, Album Art now have smoother fading. _____________________________________ Update 1.3.2 (2011.11.15.): - Switches animation smoother. (This update is mainly for testing the Update Notifier) _____________________________________ Update 1.3.1 (2011.11.09.): - Fixed a bug (that came with 1.2) which caused switches not changed visually. _____________________________________ Update 1.3 (2011.11.09.): - Fixed broken Update Notify System. _____________________________________ Update 1.2 (2011.11.09.): - Some clean-up and changes in the script for speed (when settings panel open). _____________________________________ Update 1.1 (2011.11.08.): - New settings panel layout, more space for future options. - (NEW) Update notify system, the "i" glow white and update info appear on the settings panel when new version available. (the update system uses this deviantArt page for checking) - (NEW) Option to turn off the glow effect when QuickPin enabled - (NEW) Option to turn off auto check for update. - (NEW) Fade transition for the song title and artist when track changes. - Redesigned iTunes Icon - Bugfixes in the code _____________________________________ Update 1.0 (2011.10.26.): - Refined the bar border (looks more like the Launchpad folders border). - Removed a gradient from the background. - Fine tuned the shadow in the bar. - Minor visual changes on the quick pin icon. - Minor code fix for the quick pin button. - Added 1-2 second glow indication when Quick Pin enabled. _____________________________________ Update 0.9 (2011.10.25.): - Refined album art border. - Changed default settings. (auto hide after: 4s, slide speed: 0.2s) _____________________________________ Update 0.8 (2011.10.24.): - (NEW) Quick Pin function
Click on the albumart to Pin the bar. Click again to Unpin it. (Only available when "Auto Hide" Setting enabled) _____________________________________ Update 0.7 (2011.10.21.): - Script cleaning-fixing (and fixed a bug that came with 0.6) _____________________________________ Update 0.6 (2011.10.21.): - Small delay (0.5s) to show the bar when the mouse is on the left screen edge to avoid unwanted slide in - Minor title and artist text re-position _____________________________________ Update 0.5 (2011.10.21.): - Settings panel now have two scroll buttons on lower resolution to access all settings _____________________________________ Update 0.4 (2011.10.20.): - Fixed a bug that may caused the controls to stay shown even if the mouse was not over the bar. _____________________________________ Update 0.3 (2011.10.20.): - Bowlet shows up when you move mouse to left edge of the screen _____________________________________ Update 0.2 (2011.10.20.): - Fixed auto-size bug (hopefully) - (NEW) Spring-like effect to contents - (NEW) Settings panel - some minor cosmetic change _____________________________________
Watch it in action(youtube links): version 0.1 -> [link] version 0.2-0.8 -> [link]
Features:
Animated auto show/hide
Auto position to the left
Auto sizing for every resolution
Hover with mouse to show controls
Icon to show iTunes
Click on the Album art to Pin the Bar. Click again to Unpin it. (Only works when "Auto Hide" Setting enabled)
(Tip: if you want to hide it immediately, just move your mouse over the bar and then move out.)
ToDo: - Repeat, Shuffle buttons (when repeat function in Bowtie gets fixed - it's broken now)
Note: title and artist text style may be different a little, related to your Bowtie version. (I recommend Bowtie 1.4beta)
The best theme ever!!! Just one problem, with apple's new natural scrolling the scrolling to change volume become reversed. It would be great if there was an option to reverse the scrolling for volume feature, or at least you could say where in the code someone can change it. Keep up the good work
Thankyou! The scroll-volume feature is not theme related, it's built-in in Bowtie itself, so I can't do anything for that. Ask Bowtie developers to make an option to reverse the volume scrolling.
This is amazing! You should add a hand gesture to access it. Like the hand gesture for the Notification Centre on Mountain Lion, but instead of coming from the right, coming from the left of the trackpad.
hi, i dont know much about this, but why i cant install Bowtie in MountainLion?? im trying to download fron Softpedia but appear a warning tellin than safari not trust in softpedia.com and dont let me did the download. thank you!!
Keep up the good work
1. When I press skip, it skips 2 songs ahead
2. When I pause my music, I have to unpause it via iTunes or the bar stops working