Author Topic: a solution for visabilty issues with 'selected' icons?  (Read 2315 times)

hiccup

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This is an observation on something that has been a skinning challenge from the early days of MusicBee.
When an icon has transparency values and colours that match/collide with highlight colours of selected fields (and also on active tabs), these icons can loose their recognizability.



There are probably a few possible solutions for this, such as perhaps alternative icon options for 'selected', or some inverted 'masking' feature?
Or maybe a skinning option to make the (16x16?) area of the tab or the selection bar where the icon is positioned transparent?

Steven

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the easiest thing would be for MB to allow you to specify a mask colour that has alpha and MB applies to the non-transparent bits of the image.
I would have to try it and see how well that works. Otherwise every icon would probably need an alternative for when selected but i would prefer the first approach.
Can you put this on the 3.1 skinning requests topic, along with any other requests that have been posted on other topics

hiccup

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That solution would be fine with me. Even a little improvement on the current situation would probably be sufficient.

I will re-post this in the 3.1 thread. But I am not sure I understand why. Does that mean this board is not to be used anymore, and will be locked? Or is the 3.1 board a temporary one only to be used until 3.1 is released?