In the ‘old days’ (I’ve been a RW user since version 3) it was good practice to work on a copy of a Theme. So I used to Duplicate a Theme in RW (not the Finder) before starting to make changes to its settings/values… I would typically prepend a space and indicate the Theme’s name with a meaningful prefix. So, for instance, I’d make a duplicate of ‘Expose’ as ‘ BrightonCoffee_Expose’. It all works/worked well. The disadvantage, of course, is that I have two versions of the same Theme, and only the original gets updated when a new version is released… ‘Expose’ but not ‘ BrightonCoffee_Expose’. So I’ve decided to stop working on duplicates and just use (RW) Styles to customize Themes instead. How do I transfer the Styles in the Duplicate(s) which I made (back) into the original Themes? I can easily save the (Duplicate Theme’s) Master Style using the cog… But when I try get it back into the non-Duplicate Theme (so that it can be updated) using the dropdown in Settings > Master Style to find my Style file, it’s not there. Changing what I take to be the Theme Name line in the XML in BBEdit to try and force the Style values to apply to the non-duplicate version of the Theme hasn’t so far worked, either. Can it be done, please? TIA!

Hi Mark, I’ve noticed with Themeflood themes i had to change the Style name, Theme Name and then also under Root > Colours > ‘yourthemename’ and then the styles would work successfully. Not sure if that is the case for other developer’s themes though. HTH.

I recently did the opposite and created a copy to experiment with CSS. I wanted to use a custom style I created once and searched the web for a how-to to get it recognised by the copy. Found this: http://docs.nimblehost.com/rwthemefaq#theme-backup-guide-652 The chapter Updating Saved Style Files gave me the information I was looking for. Worked perfect. It looks to me you’re close to a solution. Don’t forget to restart RW. Hope this helps, Menno.

We had this topic recently and I described how it works. You were also in that thread. [image] Dupicate Themes should duplicate custom styles as well Feature Requests Hi, lets start again as the nice feature requests from the old forum are lost. I often Duplicate themes to modify them for my needs and I find it annoying that custom styles are lost if I do so. I have to manually hack the custom styles to work with the duplicated themes and I think this job should be done by RW for me. It´s not rocket science and would save a lot of time. Regards René

Rene, Thanks for reminding me of that thread, to which I contributed. You are right then (and I was wrong, sorry!) Do you think it really is only a question of changing the single line as indicated in Oscar’s (how is he, does anyone know?) post here? I did try that, but the icon for the Style was that of BBEdit, and it didn’t work… Thanks for your suggestions!

David, Thanks for that: I’ll try in those two places. It does happen to be a Theme Flood theme :slight_smile:

Yeah i noticed that changing the ‘Colors’ tag is not in Will’s guide or at least it wasn’t there when i last looked. Until i found that i couldn’t get them to work properly. Hope it works for you. Mine looks like this: [image]

Thanks, Menno! Particularly steps 10 and 11. I think I shall try again :slight_smile:

David - may I ask, which XML parser was this, please?

It’s PlistEdit Pro - great for this task.

Thanks. Yes. Will BBEdit (which I already have) not do it (properly)? A little expensive for a one-off…

Transferring Styles between (identical) Themes

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We had this topic recently and I described how it works. You were also in that thread.