Is there a way to tell Skin Studio's theme bitmaps to use system colours?
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 by SemoB | Discussion: WindowBlinds
Hi all,
Basically I'm trying to create a recolourable skin where you can change the colours by changing the System Colours option in WindowBlinds.
So far, I've only been able to achieve this by using transparencies (e.g. using transparent button faces, tab backgrounds, etc.) which allows the default system background (with the predefined system colours) to show through them. But this causes issues and undesirable colouring in other areas of the theme (like combobox buttons) which can be a pain to fix using workarounds, or impossible to address like in tabs. Picture below to illustrate what I mean.
My question is, is there a way to tell Skin Studio/WindowBlinds to use the defined system colours to colour UI elements? A line of code perhaps or a special "magic" colour?
Thanks.
Reply #2 Wednesday, May 13, 2020 5:16 PM
As far as I know there is no way to do what you're asking.
I'd suggest that you might look closely at the re-coloring options within the WB "modify style" page, there are a few settings in there which can yield different results as opposed to just clicking on a color tile. Other than brightness, it all is based on hue-shifting though, the skin does need to have color in it.
Reply #3 Wednesday, May 13, 2020 5:26 PM
Ah that's too bad. I'm not very well versed in colour theory. Which base colour should I use that would allow the widest variation in colours through hue shifting?
Reply #4 Wednesday, May 13, 2020 6:34 PM
I'm not sure there's really a "best". Mainly I'd go sort of in the mid-range in terms of brightness for re-coloring, unless you absolutely like bright or dark.
The best thing to do might be to pick a color that you might want to use often, then just make a taskbar in that color and see if it recolors the way you want it to within WB.
Reply #5 Thursday, May 14, 2020 8:34 PM
I'm not sure there's really a "best". Mainly I'd go sort of in the mid-range in terms of brightness for re-coloring, unless you absolutely like bright or dark.
The best thing to do might be to pick a color that you might want to use often, then just make a taskbar in that color and see if it recolors the way you want it to within WB.
Thanks for your input. I've discovered that if you colour your skin with one pure RGB colour (e.g. 255 blue) you could use the hue bar to get pretty much any other colour on the spectrum, so that might be the way forward.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, May 13, 2020 2:44 PM
Anyone please?