Skin- and visual errors related to, and skinning requests for MusicBee v3

[Bee-liever]

in Tag Editor panel:

tab selection highlight controlled by
<element id="Controls.TabHeader.Lowlight" bg="242,246,231" />
no longer works.

By design?

[hiccup]

2. The hard to read credits draws it's color from: "Controls.InputControl.Disabled"
That is problematic for several dark skins. It would probably be good to change the sourcing of that color.

Related to that:
The hard to read text from Album auto-tagger also draws it's color from "Controls.InputControl.Disabled".
For actually disabled items that coloring and description is suited.
But for these two locations they don't always turn out right.

Maybe have a new element for this, such as maybe Controls.InputControl.Secondary ?


 

[Alumni]

i cant believe i didnt notice that. Its fixed for the next update

Thanks for the fix!

By the way - I noticed when dragging and dropping tracks to a playlist the foreground color flashes red for a moment.
Not a big deal, but is there a way to override this color?

[Steven]

1. An icon override for these white/blue arrows:

that was included in the last update or it wasnt then its in the next
Controls.WebLink fg=XXXX

2. The hard to read credits draws it's color from: "Controls.InputControl.Disabled"
That is problematic for several dark skins. It would probably be good to change the sourcing of that color.

i will make some adjustments on the MB side to use the default colours

[Steven]

By the way - I noticed when dragging and dropping tracks to a playlist the foreground color flashes red for a moment.
Not a big deal, but is there a way to override this color?

i thought there was an override but it seems not (its the same behavior as v2.5)
I might change it to flash bold instead but if not i will add an override

[Bee-liever]

The override
<element id="Controls.TicketsButton.Default" />
no longer works in 3.0

Could it please be restored and a bdr attribute added.

[hiccup]

Related to that:
The hard to read text from Album auto-tagger also draws it's color from "Controls.InputControl.Disabled".
For actually disabled items that coloring and description is suited.
But for these two locations they don't always turn out right.

Maybe have a new element for this, such as maybe Controls.InputControl.Secondary ?

The credits panel is now fine. But the auto-tagger panel still uses 'disabled'.

[Steven]

in Tag Editor panel:

tab selection highlight controlled by
<element id="Controls.TabHeader.Lowlight" bg="242,246,231" />
no longer works.

i forgot to mention, i did have a look at that and didnt see any evidence it was being used in v2.5
I guess its possible it used to be a long time ago but i dont want to change anything that will cause issues for newer skins

[Bee-liever]

i forgot to mention, i did have a look at that and didnt see any evidence it was being used in v2.5

It was working up to and including 2.5.
See my included skins Bee78 and Wing-ated
It's there and working in older skins too - see AeroBee

[Steven]

bee-78 was the skin i checked and didnt see any difference between v2.5 and 3
I cant check now but if you post a screenshot showing the differences i will investigate

edit:
its just occured to me you might be refering to hot-tracking when the mouse goes over a tab. I removed support for that (to simplfy things for me). Is that what you are refering to?

[Bee-liever]

bee-78 was the skin i checked and didnt see any difference between v2.5 and 3
I cant check now but if you post a screenshot showing the differences i will investigate

Bee78 2.5 - black highlight on tab mouse-over


Bee78 3.0 - no highlight on mouse-over


It's not a big deal and, going forward, if the tabs are intended to be replaced with a header bar (as per the main panel), then I could see no good reason to waste time on fixing this for 3.0.

[Steven]

bee-78 was the skin i checked and didnt see any difference between v2.5 and 3
I cant check now but if you post a screenshot showing the differences i will investigate

Bee78 2.5 - black highlight on tab mouse-over

Bee78 3.0 - no highlight on mouse-over

It's not a big deal and, going forward, if the tabs are intended to be replaced with a header bar (as per the main panel), then I could see no good reason to waste time on fixing this for 3.0.

you probably missed my edit. However i am not planning on making any changes to the style of tabs for the tag editor

[Steven]

I would like to request overrides for the synchronization node.
Currently the vertical menu gets its values from preferences, but it would be nice if it could be configured separately.
Also would be good to have alternating row colors for the sync progress section.

i have added for the next update:
DeviceSettings.VerticalMenu.Default
DeviceSettings.VerticalMenu.Highlight
DeviceSettings.VerticalMenu.Lowlight
but wont make any overrides for the alternating row colours

[Steven]

The override
<element id="Controls.TicketsButton.Default" />
no longer works in 3.0

Could it please be restored and a bdr attribute added.

thats fixed for the next v3 update

[Steven]

i have added an override for the track information section (currently maroon coloured) in the Now Playing panel
NowPlayingTrackInfo bg=XXXX fg=XXXX
it is alpha blended with the background image depending on the panel configuraton used