Preparations

The icons of all buttons can be simply exchanged with new ones. The icons are located in a folder with the name of the plugin they are used for. Those plugin folders are subfolders of the megazine/gui folder.

Preparetions for the fat version

Only in case of the standard MegaZine3 configuration the folders, that contain the button icons, can be accessed directly. For the "fat" version all elements of the megazine/gui/ folder of the standard version must be provided in a folder named differently. Ant then in the megazine.mz3 file that path must be declared with the guipath attribute, before any changes can be made.
Reason: all elements needed by Megazine3 are included in the megazine-fat.swf file (for the online version), or within the megazine-fat.exe or megazine-fat.app files (for the offline version); and therefore not accessible. Therefore these steps have to be followed:

  1. Download the full version of MegaZine3 from the download (experts) page
  2. Extract the gui/ folder from the downloaded package and copy it into the megazine/ folder of the Megazine3 Version you want to modify; giving it a new name like gui_mod/
  3. add the attribute guipath to the <book> tag and set it to the correct path. In above axample as
    guipath = "gui_mod/" 

It is necessary that the complete content of the gui/ folder is copied into the new folder.
Alternatively you should consider to use the full/standard version with all folders. The loading process will be a bit slower, though. 

Download the ASUL source files

Besides a simple exchange if icons (same size, smae name, different image) you will have to edit the respective ASUL file for changes. The ASUL files provided with the software, i.e. those that come with the download packages, are optimzed for speed: stripped, i.e. without line breaks, indentation, comments. And therefore it is difficult to work with these files directly. 

You should download the ASUL files you consider to change from our SVN area. You have to login with a different user name and password than those you probably registered for this website or the forum. Teh link where you can find that access information is provided when you first enter the SVN area. Please read the hint given in the popup window. The reason is that you must agree that you know our temrs and conditions and will follow those.

All ASUL files and related elements like icons and text files can be found in the assets/megazie/gui/ folder here.

You should download the ASUL files needed into the gui/ (or gui_mod) folder.