about that recoloring feature ....
can it be done?
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 by MadDeez | Discussion: ObjectDock
is it possible to change the recoloring engine of objectdock to match the one in windowblinds? changing one color of a dock background instead of all of it would be great. as an example, if the default dock is grey and green and i want it to be grey and blue, how do i change it? telling od to recolor it to blue changes all of the dock, not just the green area...... not cool. please, please, puh-lease reconfigure the recoloring engine. the cherry on top is purely optional.
Reply #2 Tuesday, February 1, 2011 8:54 PM
You do not have to do that BB. All you have to do is add the color you want the tabs to be to the custom colors. It remebers that specific color and you just have to click on custom colors in the list. No need for remembering the 3 RGB colors for each tab.
Reply #3 Tuesday, February 1, 2011 9:01 PM
Updating the recoloring function in Object Dock would be fantastic since it is so easy to recolor a WindowBlinds. 
Reply #4 Tuesday, February 1, 2011 10:56 PM
Same with IP... recolors everything, pretty useless really. 
Reply #5 Tuesday, February 1, 2011 11:11 PM
"Same with IP... recolors everything, pretty useless really."
I think it would be difficult if not impossible to program IP to recolor only a portion of an icon. That can be done but the icon would have to be edited manually I would think, unless you mean it colors all the icon packages in which case you you just uncheck the box before applying a new theme.
Reply #6 Tuesday, February 1, 2011 11:51 PM
Shouldn't be any diff. than a WB... the colors that are to be recolored are.. 'grabbed'.... and the rest.. is left alone.
Reply #7 Wednesday, February 2, 2011 5:45 AM
"Shouldn't be any diff. than a WB... the colors that are to be recolored are.. 'grabbed'.... and the rest.. is left alone."
I think it is different. Windowblinds skins are made up of different files so you can recolor sections of the blind. An icon is one file so to recolor a certain part of the icon and leave the rest alone is actually more involved then recoloring blinds. With recoloring something like a blind your recoloring certain entire frames of the blind and it is not done on a per pixel basis. To recolor only certain portions of an icon the software such as IP would have to be able to recognize any specific section of the icon you wanted recolored (that would vary per user because no two people will probably want the same portion the same color), single those pixels out and apply the color to your selection. Its not like recoloring the entire icon package which is easy to program the software to do. Then you would have to repeat the process all over for every icon you wanted certain parts recolored. It would involve editing like what you find in a program such as PS. I just do not think that is practical for software such as IP.
Reply #8 Wednesday, February 2, 2011 8:45 AM
afaik... WB just recolors, not particular sections, but by isolating the color that is picked by the user.. u can recolor any part of a wb, just by choosing that color and sensitivity to it. even a single image, just part of it can be recolored, shouldn't be any different with an Icon.
Reply #9 Wednesday, February 2, 2011 9:02 AM
i'm glad i'm not the only person who wishes the recoloring engine was changed to match the one in wb. i was beginning to feel a little lonely. 
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Reply #1 Tuesday, February 1, 2011 8:34 PM
I requested this as well in the OD2 beta thread. Not only that, but being able to apply the same color to all the tabs at once would be fantastic. Having to write down/remember the custom RGB code and then manually changing it for 6+ tabs is tedious.