Overlay all panels on a bitmap background

[Steven]

All the header menus (when shown) have the translucent background.
Could this also be added to element id="Content[TrackDetail].Body.ListHeader" to separate it from the panel body.

I am not sure i understand what you are requesting. "Content[TrackDetail].Body.ListHeader" is an existing element. When a custom background is active, it should still be used but with an alpha value applied

no, i was wrong. For the next update I have changed it to apply a low alpha

[Bee-liever]

As a lot of skins are arranged in folders, if MB can't find a skin specific background could it then look for a folder specific custom background.
That way, a background would not be needed for every colour in Dark-Fine Tuned, just a generic "Dark-Fine Tuned.jpg" background.

It already works that way as I requested it earlier.

Sorry redwing, that was way back on the first page and I'd forgotten about it  

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Also, with 'artist picture' element, if the image is to small for the available space and needs background fill.  That background fill is the solid panel colour.

that should be fixed as well now

I noticed that the solid background colour is back for this element  

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And here is some backgrounds (for the default instal skin folders) for testing.



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The only one I can't make a suitable "generic" background for is Dark> MetroStyle as there is just to much contrast between the white main panel and the black background of the other panels.

[redwing]

And here is some backgrounds (for the default instal skin folders) for testing.

They look great! Thanks for sharing!
I will include some other images to my 3.2 skins, but more choices would be always welcome.
Maybe I will tweak your Pastels image a little and use that.

[redwing]

i will do the vertical tag editor

Can you make text boxes translucent too as they currently keep its original color?

[Steven]

Also, with 'artist picture' element, if the image is to small for the available space and needs background fill.  That background fill is the solid panel colour.

that should be fixed as well now

I noticed that the solid background colour is back for this element  

Working fine here for artist pictures. The only change i made recently was for stacked album covers. They used to always be forced to a square when stacked so ensured the whole area was filled. Now the aspect ratio is maintained and the remainder filled with the skin background colour - is that what you mean? If so, i wont change that, although i could if it was just one album for the artist, but then its not being consistent with multi-album artists

[Steven]

i will do the vertical tag editor

Can you make text boxes translucent too as they currently keep its original color?

no thats not possible as it uses a winforms textbox control which doesnt support that

[redwing]

OK. Thanks for clarifying!

[Bee-liever]

Also, with 'artist picture' element, if the image is to small for the available space and needs background fill.  That background fill is the solid panel colour.

that should be fixed as well now

I noticed that the solid background colour is back for this element  

Working fine here for artist pictures. The only change i made recently was for stacked album covers. They used to always be forced to a square when stacked so ensured the whole area was filled. Now the aspect ratio is maintained and the remainder filled with the skin background colour - is that what you mean? If so, i wont change that, although i could if it was just one album for the artist, but then its not being consistent with multi-album artists

This is the artist picture element I'm referring to:

[Steven]

And here is some backgrounds (for the default instal skin folders) for testing.

Thanks for sharing those and if its OK with you, except for Redwing's skin folders, i would like to include in the installer

[Steven]

This is the artist picture element I'm referring to:

thats implemented for the next v3.2 update


http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_2/MusicBee32_Patched.zip
its important to replace all the existing musicbee files otherwise you will get a crash with MusicBeeBass.dll

[Bee-liever]

And here is some backgrounds (for the default instal skin folders) for testing.

Thanks for sharing those and if its OK with you, except for Redwing's skin folders, i would like to include in the installer

That's OK by me.
I have update the file.
Slight change to the "Skins" background as I wasn't happy with how the perspective filter worked.
Added a "Bee78" background and removed the redwing folders.

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This is the artist picture element I'm referring to:

thats implemented for the next v3.2 update

MB3.2.6734  Still not working for me  

[Steven]

This is the artist picture element I'm referring to:

thats implemented for the next v3.2 update

MB3.2.6734  Still not working for me  

I only tested with the album cover but i see the artist picture has a little more complexity to it. Thats fixed for the next update

[Alumni]

I had an idea for a repeating pattern as a background, similar to this:



For this to work though we would need the option to tile the image instead of stretching it.

[Steven]

how big is the source image? I could change MB to apply tiling is the source image is less than (for example) 500px

[Alumni]

how big is the source image? I could change MB to apply tiling is the source image is less than (for example) 500px

I think that would be a good solution. Here is a small-sized "proof of concept" image; https://i.imgur.com/TwbQNzu.png