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CrystalClear Interface 2.7

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CrystalClear Interface 2.7


(03/31/12)
CCI 2.7 is a major release that introduces new graphics options for changing menubar styles, as well as incorporating the Black Gloss button theme from Crystal Black.

CrystalClear Interface 2.7 is nearly identical to version 2.6, but it extends theming support to include Mac OS X 10.7 ("Lion") — specifically, version 10.7.3.

New features:
  • Crystal Black Theme. CCI has a new button theme — "Black Gloss" — like the one in Crystal Black

  • Menubar options. Users can mix and match among eight different menubar styles, to complement their chosen button theme, desktop picture, and window theme.

  • Quick theme switching. A new "Customize A Base Theme" panel provides an interface for selecting all components of your CrystalClear Interface at one time. Here you can set your choices for button theme, menubar style, windows preset theme, and crystal desktop picture. Of course, you can change any of these individual settings later using the CCI global menu and the CCI Preferences panel.

  • Application graphics. CCI seamlessly swaps custom application graphics that match the chosen button theme. For example, if you switch to Black Gloss buttons, the custom graphics for Apple and Third-Party apps remove the previous theme's graphics and installs those for Black Gloss

  • New window frames. To take advantage of the new menubar and button theme options, CCI adds two new window frame styles — "Black Gloss" and "Black Gradient."

  • New preset themes. You now have two more preset themes — "Black Gloss" and "Smooth Black" — to take advantage of the new window styles.

  • Colored lights. Two of the button themes — "Black Gloss" and "Glossy" — now have a set of three-color "stoplight" buttons for the Close, Minimize, and Zoom functions on window titlebars. This feature has been frequently requested in the past, and users can now use the colored buttons by selecting the "Blue" appearance theme in System Preferences -> Appearance.
For more information, or to download the software, visit the CrystalClear Interface website.

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CrystalClear Interface 2.7 Supports Lion

Journal Entry: Fri May 4, 2012, 1:33 PM
Last month, I released a major upgrade to CrystalClear Interface... version 2.6. The software has so many new features and enhancements that I actually raised the price from $12 to $18.

However, CCI 2.6 would only work on Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6).

Earlier this week I finished work on CCI 2.7, which brings all the great theming power of version 2.6 to Lion users (specifically, version 10.7.3).

Note: The upgrade is free for users who have purchased a license for CCI prior to May 10, 2012.

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*Symplig0th Jan 14, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
Just got this on osx 10.7.2. cannot for the life of me actually get my taskbar to go transparent :(

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*marsmuse Jan 15, 2012  Hobbyist Interface Designer
Hi, it's nonintuitive, but you must open System Preferences -> Desktop pane. Deselect the checkbox that lets you use transparency in the menubar.

Cheers,
Leland
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~Heiko-HALO Oct 16, 2011
Hi Leland
I got a question about your iTune Theme Cristal Black.
I followed your instructions and clicked the installapplication.
For your information, I use an iMac and got the Mac OS X Version 10.6.8.
Your App tells me: Could not find iTunes
What´s wrong?
Would appreciate, you´d help me.
Your Theme looks great and now I want it! :-)
Thanks, Heiko
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~G0Ducks Sep 13, 2011  Professional Interface Designer
Heya Leland... It was suggested to me to come ask you directly about how to fully uninstal Crystal Black iTunes. I tried to use the uninstaller but the area where the playlists are and if I display my library in list mode, the background color is black.

I have also tried deleting iTunes altogether and reinstalling it to no avail. I have tried switching the color option from dark to light in the prefs, no joy.

Anyway, Thanks for all of your hard work! Let me know if you have any ideas. :)
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*marsmuse Sep 21, 2011  Hobbyist Interface Designer
Hi there,
It sounds like you've toggled a hidden iTunes preference that sets the playlist and track listings backgrounds to black, with white text. The preference is called "high-contrast-mode-enable", and if you set it to true, you get the black backgrounds.

To change it back, either use one of the many third-party apps that let you fiddle with hidden settings (I use a free preference pane called Secrets myself), or open Terminal and type:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes high-contrast-mode-enable -bool NO

Cheers,
Leland

P.S. I don't think the Crystal Black iTunes skin changes this setting on its own, though it is a setting you can toggle if using the full Crystal Black theme software.
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~G0Ducks Sep 22, 2011  Professional Interface Designer
Yes, I fixed the issue by reinstalling CB Theme, then unchecking the use black backgrounds option. Then I uninstalled it and BINGO! :)

Thanks for the reply!

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~dukecrescent Jun 11, 2011
Thank you for the iTunes skin Crystal Black!
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Mood: Zest ~potasiyam Oct 22, 2010  Hobbyist Interface Designer
thanks for the :+fav:

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Mood: Optimism ~vintageer Aug 24, 2009
A fantastic way to make a mac look beautiful but still usable. Amazing!

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*marsmuse Sep 2, 2009  Hobbyist Interface Designer
Thanks!
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