Introduction

It's possible to theme or brand FireDaemon Pro. Theming (skinning) allows you to:

• Replace the command line, splash screen, title bar and About box product name (currently "FireDaemon")
• Replace the FireDaemon and non-FireDaemon icons in main GUI service list
• Replace the splash screen product name and icon
• Replace all button icons

You can't remove copyright notices and version numbers nor modify the name of executables and registry keys. A commercial service is provided for customers who require FireDaemon Pro skinned. For more information and pricing please contact sales support.

Example Screenshots

Main GUI (titlebar icon and description and toolbar icons):

New / Edit Service Definition dialog (titlebar icon and description and toolbar icons):

Help/About (titlebar description, primary icon and other text and links) plus Help/About/Details (titlebar description only) :

Graphics Requirements

The minimum requirements for the replacement graphics are as follows:

• Images can be up to 32-bit colour and may contain an alpha channel
• Toolbar images (ico and bmp) are 24x24 pixels and need the background set to RGB(192,192,192)
• Help About icon is 32x32 pixels
• The main GUI icon should have both 16x16 and 32x32 pixel layers
• Service list icons and up and down arrow buttons are 16x16 pixels
• Splash logo is 128x128 pixels
• Splash text is 200x31 pixels.

Various caveats apply:

• If Toolbar image dimensions differ from their required dimension (eg. 24x24) the images are scaled to accordingly. Bitmaps can only be used for toolbar images.
• The FireDaemon Pro GUI attempts try to load images with given dimensions and desktop color depth, otherwise it will load the closest image and scale to dimensions as required
• FireDaemon Pro will fail gracefully if an icon is incompatible or cannot be found.
• FireDaemon Pro will fail gracefully is the XML is syntactically incorrect.

Configuration Example

FireDaemon Pro ships with a sample theme. The theme is defined in an XML file (see below). The theme XML file needs to be placed in a directory called "Skin" in the FireDaemon Pro installation directory (typically "%FIREDAEMON_HOME%"). Underneath the Skin directory create a directory called "Graphics". Place all icons and bitmaps in this directory. Note that if the FIREDAEMON_HOME environment variable is not defined, the installation directory path will be sourced from the FireDaemon Pro HKLM InstallationDir registry variable.

The default XML configuration file is as follows (note that the ImageType tag needs to be either "icon" or "bmp" - the toolbar can only contain icons or bitmaps but not both):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no" ?>

<Reskinning>

<Text>

    <CommandLine>FireDaemon Pro</CommandLine>

    <SplashScreen>FireDaemon Pro</SplashScreen>

    <Titlebar>FireDaemon Pro</Titlebar>

    <About>FireDaemon Pro</About>

    <VisitWebSiteUrl>http://www.firedaemon.com</VisitWebSiteUrl>

    <HomeSiteTitle>www.firedaemon.com</HomeSiteTitle>

    <HomeSiteUrl>http://www.firedaemon.com</HomeSiteUrl>

    <RegisterTitle>Register</RegisterTitle>

    <RegisterAddress>http://www.firedaemon.com/purchase-firedaemon.php</RegisterAddress>

    <Support>For complimentary support of your FireDaemon product please email:</Support>

    <SupportLinkTitle>helpdesk@firedaemon.com</SupportLinkTitle>

    <SupportLinkUrl>mailto:helpdesk@firedaemon.com</SupportLinkUrl>

    <Details>FireDaemon Support Details</Details>

</Text>

<Graphics>

    <FDServiceIcon>application.ico</FDServiceIcon>

    <NonFDServiceIcon>gear.ico</NonFDServiceIcon>

    <SplashScreenIcon>fd.ico</SplashScreenIcon>

    <SplashScreenTextIcon>FireDaemon.ico</SplashScreenTextIcon>

    <GUIicon>fd.ico</GUIicon>

    <AboutIcon>devil.ico</AboutIcon>

    <Toolbar>

        <ImageType>icon</ImageType>

        <NewSvc>application_add.ico</NewSvc>

        <EditSvc>application_edit.ico</EditSvc>

        <Delete>application_delete.ico</Delete>

        <DeleteAll>application_enterprise_delete.ico</DeleteAll>

        <Start>application_run.ico</Start>

        <Stop>application_stop.ico</Stop>

        <Restart>application_ok.ico</Restart>

        <StartAll>application_enterprise_run.ico</StartAll>

        <StopAll>application_enterprise_stop.ico</StopAll>

        <RestartAll>application_enterprise_ok.ico</RestartAll>

        <Filter>funnel.ico</Filter>

        <OpenSvc>folder_gear.ico</OpenSvc>

        <Save>floppy_disk2.ico</Save>

        <SaveAs>folder_into.ico</SaveAs>

        <ViewXML>binocular.ico</ViewXML>

        <Refresh>refresh.ico</Refresh>

        <Exit>exit.ico</Exit>

    </Toolbar>

</Graphics>

</Reskinning>