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assumeddiz

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can tab icons have different color when tabs are docked to caption bar?

i searched and found out about something called icon masks but there is no explanation of how they work

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can tab icons have different color when tabs are docked to caption bar?

i searched and found out about something called icon masks but there is no explanation of how they work

Yes and no. You can use an icon mask element, but that is only for inactive (lowlight) tabs. Icon masks have a transparency value in addition to a color value, for example; "0,0,0,0".

assumeddiz

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so having a mask for active tabs will allow this to be done? will suggest this in the 3.1 skinning thread then
the thing is i dont understand how they apply to the icon, im getting solid mask color covering the whole thing