First things first: THIS IS A BETA. It may or may not work as intended, it may contain bugs, and it may magically consume all milk in your fridge. No guarantees given at this point.

What is guiKitty?

guiKitty is a companion tool for any people interested in creating themes to be used with the ShapeShifter. Its purpose is pretty simple: it can compile and decompile guiKit files, which are the native format understood by the ShapeShifter.

When you launch the application, a splash screen will appear. From there on, you can:

- Drag the .guiKit file you want to decompile onto the splash window. guiKitty will then expand the guiKit into a bunch of files and folders located in a folder with the same name as the guiKit you have dragged on it, in the same location. You can then edit any file from the resulting decompiled folder (to, say, make some tweaks to the theme or whatnot), and then compile the folder back into a guiKit file.
- Drag the previously decompiled guiKit folder onto the splash window. guiKitty will then magically walk the structure of that folder and make a properly encoded guiKit file you can use with ShapeShifter.

guiKitty is freeware and does not require ShapeShifter or Application Enhancer to be installed.

Download Link

http://www.unsanity.net/beta/guiKitty-11b1.zip

There will be an official guiKitty page on the unsanity.com server once we reach the release state.

Conclusion

All in all, this is pretty straight-forward. Read the Read Me file for more information. Since this is a beta, please let me know if there's any bugs either in the comments or by e-mail (slava, usual e-mail sign, unsanity, dot, com). Also please do not re-distribute the file around as this is not a release version, and we don't really want this to be out in the wild at this point.

 Posted by slava at 04:53 AM | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
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Comments

Slava, you're my hero.

Posted by: Steven Canfield on February 2, 2004 12:24 PM

Can make it for windows?

Posted by: Phoenix on January 24, 2005 9:25 AM

This app just hangs for me.
please see
http://macthemesforums.net/viewtopic.php?t=160&sid=d331c01a1f8087bfd1f18a43a9b52499

Posted by: joe on August 30, 2005 6:26 AM

I have sent a mail telling I couldn't compile a .guikit file by dropping a folder on the application window. I downloaded a very nice theme, but didn't like the way it altered the looks of iTunes. So I wanted to modify the theme by a decompiling it by dropping it on guikitty; I then removed the folder which contained the alternative resource file to use by shapeshifter, so it wouldn't alter iTunes look.
Dropping the altered folder on guikitty didn't result in compiling the necessary .guikit file to use the adated theme...
I sent an email to slava, but no answer. I loose my time with you guys, I don't get it to see this page cluttered by some stupid spam, do you even care guys ???

Posted by: anonymous on January 27, 2006 3:43 PM

I had the exact problem. I opened a gui that had a mod for itunes 5 in it. Im am currently using iTunes 6 so it did not work exactly as it should have. So I opended it and edited the .rsrc file so it would properly work. But now guikitty will not compile the folder??? Please if anybody has the solution email me.

Posted by: Christian\ on March 24, 2006 9:47 PM