About skinning Luna

[Branis]

Oh, and about VerticalSliderBody.png : it's there because maybe there will come other places where there are vertical sliders.

Maybe the vertical slider in the audio mixer strip could have a transparant background so that it doesn't use the VerticalSliderBody.png, but just shows the mixer strip picture at that place

(Branis, note that the VerticalSliderBody format in your skin would not display well for sliders that have another height! we don't suffer from that at the moment since the mixer strip is the only place with a vertical slider now, but that could change in the future)

Maybe you could keep the VerticalSliderBody.png only for those extra places. I could then adjust the look of it to make it suitable for resizing, and you could remove it from the mixer strip where it's size is fixed. What do you think?

The Hue shift is a great idea, I just tested it and it looks great! You could also set different default values for the VST, Send and Audiotrack mixer strips.

[grymmjack]

branis, your work is sweet! keep it up. when 1.0 comes, i'm all over this using your skin.

[Branis]

Thank, grymmjack, I'm waiting for GVST Gmulti with your skin

[grymmjack]

Thank, grymmjack, I'm waiting for GVST Gmulti with your skin

Ahh it's done actually, I just have to skin the rest of the suite before Graham can launch. I'll do it soon. I need this to happen as well - Graham's skin implementation is quite good too.

Sorry it's taking so long Branis, I'm a slacker so I am!

[Branis]

Oh, you're doing the whole suite? Great!

[muzycian]

Oh, and about VerticalSliderBody.png : it's there because maybe there will come other places where there are vertical sliders.

Maybe the vertical slider in the audio mixer strip could have a transparant background so that it doesn't use the VerticalSliderBody.png, but just shows the mixer strip picture at that place

(Branis, note that the VerticalSliderBody format in your skin would not display well for sliders that have another height! we don't suffer from that at the moment since the mixer strip is the only place with a vertical slider now, but that could change in the future)

Maybe you could keep the VerticalSliderBody.png only for those extra places. I could then adjust the look of it to make it suitable for resizing, and you could remove it from the mixer strip where it's size is fixed. What do you think?

Yes, that's what i meant. It's like that from PR2 on.

Note that from PR2 on, the xml files for the panels have slightly changed:

For example the TransportPanel.xml contained

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  <Component>
    <Type>Field</Type>
    <Rectangle>23,8,40,23</Rectangle>
    <Picture>PlayButton</Picture>
    <Name>Play</Name>
  </Component>

From PR2 that will be like

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  <Component>
    <Type>Field</Type>
    <Rectangle>23,8,40,23</Rectangle>
    <Loox>
      <Type>Picture</Type>
      <Name>PlayButton</Name>
    </Loox>
    <Name>Play</Name>
  </Component>

Thus the "Loox" for a component are defined in a more generic way.

Then the slider in the AudioMixerStrip can be defined like

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  <Component>
    <Type>Slider</Type>
    <Rectangle>209,54,42,120</Rectangle>
    <Loox>
      <Type>Transparant</Type>
    </Loox>
    <ID>volm</ID>
  </Component>

The skins LooxShark and LooxBenu have already been updated to this new syntax.