We improved the Global Theme properties screen to allow you to manually enter the JSON data for your theme. This may or may not be useful for you and you don't have to do anything different if you dont' want to. However, this could be useful in lots of situations. The idea is that you can enter an arbitrary value in the Global Theme's JSON data that could then be used in ANY screen in your app. This value may be a global "style" setting (such as a font color), or, it could be something completely arbitrary. The usefulness of this improvement will depend largely on your goals and your skill. Enjoy.

Thank you very much:)

is this available for self hosted as well? I checked for updates and I dont see any.

Thank you very much David

Nice!! Loving the additions Thanks

Awesome. Thanks David! To Plugin Developers: Its important to understand how this works, and how it may affect the way your plugins handle theme options. Also, it seems it might be very important to "name" your JSON parameters in a more organized and thought out manner. Perhaps by appending your initials to each parameter (just like David has always suggested for the naming scheme of your class files). It would do no good if 4 different plugins well all looking for "cellBackgroundColor".

Thank you @David!!!

I'm developing a mod to the Cpanel that will sync amazingly with this. I create tons of code and crap that I will probably not use but I'd like it to work with Cpanel. These are only little snippets of code think twitter/ Facebook revmobs. What I have made is a super advanced options for each plugin, say 8 blank json input boxes Because I may want some screens to show ads (not iAds cos we can do that already) different share screens may have different text or pics links etc. the values are added spare1,spare2,spare 3 or they will to you because I know what I want to use the boxes for. You put in say box one/spare1 "hide" then put the link in the plugin .h then you've got access to change your screen. But I was thinking what a all ache to change all the screens then big David comes up with this, awesome. Gonna start work on this tomoz.

"The extreme" = David Book

Thank you! I was getting tired of having to manually input background color, list style, font size, etc every time I used a simple list menu. This makes it much easier!!

Nice work David! I love how these tweaks allow us to do so much! I'd say you can check off the box next to "I did something cool today"!

Hmm, now I'm having problems with this. It was working fine for a few hours now I keep getting an error message when I try to refresh saying "there was a problem parsing some configuration data..." Even when I deleted what I put and put back the default JSON data I still get this message. Maybe it'll go away on its own??

I tried making a new theme to fix whatever I apparently screwed up, but now when I load my app I get a popup that says "the configuration data for this application is invalid". What did I do???

@mutzy Dunno. Maybe copy the JSON (theme or entire config) and paste in JSON validator tool? Don't have URL, Google it -:) Thinking error in syntax?

Yup, I put in the JSON validator and it didn't like the fact that one of my screen's name that I added earlier tonight had an apostrophe. It was quite upset. I took that out and everything is back to normal. Whew! Thanks!!

The advanced option starts with 'Do not change the values in this box unless you know what you're doing'. Thats me! This looks like something I wouldn't know how to use today, but I'd like to find out how.

@David, I recently implemented a gradient background into the manually editable global theme and it seems to override any background settings that i entered for an individual screen. Any workaround or fix to this. If i change from a gradient to solid background screen color, it reverts it back to normal and all my screens respond normally.Please advise. AM

You've probably noticed that the gradient background property does not show up in any of the plugin's advanced properties. This is because there are some issues and changes with the way iOS 6 handles this. You'll be best to use a background image with a gradient effect instead. Knowing that, your post still makes sense and it what your describing should not be happening. If a screen does not have a gradient background property and the global theme does, the themes values should be used (today, until we remove the gradient background support entirely). Does the console give any clues? All of the logic for the gradient background is processed in the BT_background_view.m file (in the BT_Core folder). The routine starts on line 90 of this files. It's pretty easy to understand.

He guys, I don't know if this happened to anyone else but all my manually inputted json has disappeared from my global theme in my CP. Please check your files and make sure you weren't effected as well. AM Update: I just realized that all my manually entered jason was overwritten after I added a splash screen. Make sure you either add a splash before you manually enter your json or copy your global json and paste back after adding splash screen.

I have just started playing around editing JSON, and i can't believe i didn't do it sooner. Could have saved me loads of work! But i stumbled across this and started playing. So Thanks, i love JSON now. Jeremy