Apple Shake 4 - Manual (Page 358)

358 Chapter 14 Customizing Shake
Installing Custom Interface Settings
Settings that change the interface in some way (including macro interface files) are
usually located in:
<somewhere>/include/startup/ui
These also have a .h file extension, for example:
/Users/my_account/nreal/include/startup/ui/slider_settings.h
This is referred to as the ui directory or sometimes startup/ui directory. Files inside it are
referred to as ui .h files.
Files that change additional default settings or add extra controls are in the templates
directory, which is always within a ui directory:
/Users/me/nreal/include/startup/ui/templates/defaultfilter.h
Installing Custom Icons
Just as you can create preference files, you can create your own icons. The description
of the actual icons can be found in “
Using the Alternative Icons ” on page 375. Icons can
be found in one of three locations:
• <ShakeDir>/Contents/Resources/icons (<ShakeDir>/icons on non MacOS): a directory,
not to be confused with the important icons.pak file)
• $HOME/nreal/icons
• In any directory pointed to by $NR_ICON_PATH, set the same way
$NR_INCLUDE_PATH is set
Preference File Load Order
Within a startup or startup/ui directory, files are loaded in no specific order. If it is
important that a file is loaded before another file, this can be accomplished in a variety
of ways.
To explicitly control preference file load order, do one of the following:
m Add an include statement at the beginning of the file. For example, if macros.h relies on
common.h being loaded before, start macros.h with:
#include <common.h>
m Put all the files you want to load in a directory (for example include/myprefs) and create
a .h file in startup that contains only include statements:
#include <myprefs/loadmefirst.h>
#include <myprefs/nowloadthis.h>
#include <myprefs/andthistoo.h>
Include files are never loaded twice, so it is okay if two .h files contain the same
#include <somefile.h> statement.